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Any organism (animal or plant) of microscopic size
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microorganism
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A microorganism or microbe is a microscopic living organism , which may be single-celled or multicellular . The study of microorganisms is called microbiology , a subject that began with the discovery of microorganisms in 1674 by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Microorganism \Mi`cro*["o]r"gan*ism\, n. [Micro- + organism.] (Biol.) Any microscopic form of life; a form of life too small to be seen by the naked eye; -- particularly applied to bacteria, protozoa, yeasts, and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Although none of these rocks contain fossils of shelled organisms, some of them do include fossils of single-celled microorganisms. ▪ Culturing microorganisms offers a highly efficient means of producing high-protein food supplements ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any organism of microscopic size
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context microbiology English) An organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye, ''especially'' a single-celled organism, such as a bacterium.
Usage examples of microorganism.
And thanks to the aeroplankton, everyone now had to own, and wear during the aeroplankton storms, filter-masks conveniently designed to filter out the microorganism and forty-seven varieties of industrial pollutants.
Moscow-region institutes into the Enzyme project: the Institute of Protein, the Institute of Molecular Biology, the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, and the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry.
The computer even has a symbiosis of sorts with its viruses, just as humans have coevolved with certain biological microorganisms.
He and the others aboard had taken the routine immunological treatments before departure, and the ship had been gone over by his own medics to avoid carrying dangerous microorganisms to a planet with only a primitive medical technology.
Patent and Trademark Office to grant a patent to a nonnatural, man-made microorganism that eats oil.
One of these symbiotic microorganisms is a protozoan named polymastigote, which moves around only because spirochete bacteria attach to it like tiny outboard motors.
The only known antidote was a spongelike lifeform native to the home of the microorganism.
RDNA labs outside of the city of Wuhan, and it was the four-hundredth viable strain of man-made microorganisms created at that research center.
There is concern about the larger life forms, many of whose remnants are saved in zoos, but there is yet little understanding that microorganisms, insects, and microscopic plant species are going also.
When pus formation has occurred it is an indication that the white blood corpuscles have successfully overcome the invading microorganisms.
The location should be sunny, level and open to the ground to permit earthworms and microorganisms to enter from below.
And all these furiously active microorganisms, with their cameras and microphones and antennae, were attaching themselves to my surface, worrying away at the membrane.
He had met trick pools like these before in caves, pools into which the water entered without bubbles to mark its current, the water so purified of those minerals and microorganisms that give it its tint of color.
I can feel the grime, elaborate microorganisms making a beeline up my neck, for my inner ear .
He wondered if microorganisms on Buin carried the equivalent of gangrene.