| ADJECTIVE | pert | bacteroidal, bacteroid, bacterioidal, bacterioid | resembling bacteria |
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| Meaning | resembling bacteria. | |
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| Synonyms | bacteroid, bacterioidal, bacterioid | |
| Spanish | bacteroidal | |
| Nouns | bacteria | (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission |
| bacteroid | a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants) | |
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