Bacterium is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BACTERIUM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a class of unicellular or filamentous microorganisms
• a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some which can cause disease.
• single bacteria
• A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.
• (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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• any of a domain (Bacteria) of prokaryotic round, spiral, or rod-shaped single-celled microorganisms that may lack cell walls or are gram-positive or gram-negative if they have cell walls, that are often aggregated into colonies or motile by means of flagella, that typically live in soil, water, organic matter, or the bodies of plants and animals, that are usually autotrophic, saprophytic, or parasitic in nutrition, and that are noted for their biochemical effects and pathogenicity; broadly; prokaryote — compare archaea, eukaryote

Words related to BACTERIUM

bacteria12 streptomyces21

Words that contain BACTERIUM

eubacterium17 mycobacterium26 cyanobacterium25 nitrobacterium20 archaebacterium26 corynebacterium26 enterobacterium21

How to use BACTERIUM in a sentence

• He then proceeded to describe the characters of this bacterium.
• This bacterium develops in so great quantity upon low shores covered with fragments of algae as to sometimes spread over an extent of several kilometers.
• The former is in every way like a bacterium in its mode of self-division.
• The disease has been traced to the action of a bacterium which closely resembles, or is identical with, that causing Stripe among Sweet Peas.
• The peculiar bacterium that thrives on congenial alfalfa soil is essential to the highest development of the plant.
• Each kind of bacterium requires its own special environment to permit it to grow and flourish.
• When such a bacterium comes in contact with an amoeba, it is taken into its body by becoming enclosed in processes which the amoeba sends out.
• A bacterium grows until it attains the size of the species, when it divides by simple cleavage at right angles to the long axis forming two individuals.
• The lymph contains, as it were, the poisonous matter resulting from the life and activity of the tubercle bacterium.
• Not a single bacterium can any longer enter the most inviting wound while the surgeon stands ready with drawn sword to defend the portals of life.

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