bacteroid

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   bacteroid particles

Similar words

bacterioid bacteroidal bacterioidal bacterium bacteroidete bacteria bacteriome bacteriocyte bacteriocecidium spherobacteria

Often followed by

tissue formation development zone and cells suspensions nitrogenase differentiation

Word family

bacteroids