microbes
Meaning of microbes
plural noun
a microorganism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation.
late 19th century: from French, from Greek mikros ‘small’ + bios ‘life’.
Information about microbes
- It is a name.
- The singular form of microbes is: microbe.
- Languages in which microbes is used:
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Hyphenation of microbes
mi-crobes
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- microbes is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
microbes synonyms
Meaning a microscopic organism, especially a bacterium, virus, or fungus:
Meaning a rod-shaped bacterium:
Meaning a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease:
Meaning an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host:
Meaning a microorganism, especially one which causes disease:
Meaning an illness caused by a microorganism:
Anagrams of microbes
Words that rhyme with microbes
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