bacterial

Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to bacteria.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bacillus blight salmonella biological bacteria infectious bacterium germ infective microorganism microbe bacteriology bacteriological antimicrobial micro-organism

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Antonyms

bactericidal antibiotic antibacterial bactericide bacteriocide abacterial

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Related terms

bacterio-

Phrases with the word

bacterial gastroenteritis bacterial canker bacterial blight bacterial casts bacterial decay bacterial killer

Anagrams

calibrate

Examples

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection. Kurt Cobain

Putting it simply, STL is the result of a bacterial infection. Alexander Stepanov

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. Edward Lawrie Tatum

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology. Paul Nurse

Primordial communities of bacteria were elaborately interwoven by communication links. ...These turned a colony into a collective processor... The resulting learning machine was so ingenious that Eshel Ben-Jacob has called its modern bacterial counterpart a "creative web." Howard Bloom

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Close letter words and terms

bacteriacidal bacteriacide bacteriaemia bacterial blight bacterial bloodstream infection bacterial canker