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bacteroid

The English word “bacteroid” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A micro-organism such as a bacterium or yeast.
  2. A bacterium of the species Bacteroides.
  3. A symbiotic form of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Rhizobia, or the root nodule that it produces.

adjective

  1. Resembling bacteria.

Etymology

From bacterium + -oid.

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