Hypertext Webster Gateway: "microbe"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Microbe \Mi"crobe\, Microbion \Mi*cro"bi*on\, n. [NL. microbion,
fr. Gr. ? little + ? life.] (Biol.)
A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria
and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl
cholera.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
microbe
n : a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium);
the term is not in technical use [syn: {bug}, {germ}]
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