What is "bacteroid"

Bacteroid \Bac"te*roid\, Bacteroidal \Bac`te*roid"al\, a. [Bacterium + -oid.] (Biol.) Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.

a. (context biology English) Resembling bacteria. n. 1 (context dated English) A micro-organism such as a bacterium or yeast. 2 A bacterium of the species ''Bacteroides''. 3 A symbiotic form of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium ''Rhizobia'', or the root nodule that it produces.

n. a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)

adj. resembling bacteria [syn: bacteroidal, bacterioidal, bacterioid]

Bacteroid may refer to:

• Bacteroides, a genus of Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria.
• A symbiotic form of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria, Rhizobia.