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Bacterium   /bæktˈɪriəm/   Listen
Bacterium

noun
(pl. bacteria)
1.
(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants.  Synonym: bacteria.



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"Bacterium" Quotes from Famous Books



... this history is that the actual parasitic germ which causes typhus, whether a bacterium (Schizophyte) or a protozoon, has not been detected, although the louse has been shown to be its "carrier." The same is true of yellow-fever: we have not seen with the microscope the microbe which produces it. But we know with certainty that the ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester



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