Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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n. (alternative spelling of microorganism English)
Usage examples of "micro-organism".
Peradventure the actual food consists of the micro-organisms in the slush and on the superficies of the unassimilatable solids.
This micro-organism is a specially developed strain of the blue-green Nostoc algae.
The Jugglers were a biochemical consciousness distributed through each ocean, composed of trillions of co-acting micro-organisms, arranged into island-sized clumps.
Micro-organisms, generally, display a negative chemotaxis, which enables them to respond to a deleterious alteration in the • We think with sardonic amusement of the moth who seems so stupidly to fly into a flame that kills it, but movement toward the light is generally adaptive behavior.
Musing over his spherical field-bound pond, stirring it with a glass rod, watching the algae twine on the rod, making history among the micro-organisms, the paramecia and rotifers, the euglenoids and diatoms, the desmids, amphipods, ostracods, wreaking havoc among the daphnia.
Wolf, watching a naked child defecate on a pile of garbage, recalled reading a city Health Services report - quickly suppressed by the mayor's office - that found the number of colonies of pathogenic micro-organisms like diplococcus, staph, amoeba and salmonella per cubic metre here to be completely off the measurement scale.
Looking down it he described for the first time in human history a hitherto invisible world, teeming with micro-organisms - animalicules, he called them - present in their thousands in every drop of pond-water.
Most vascular plants and mosses succumbed as well, leaving the land and oceans empty save for micro-organisms: multi-celled animals like algae and fungi.
The parcels in which the micro-organisms arrived were egg-like, containing a small amount of prepackaged nutrients.
There were new micro-organisms in the poisoned soil against which there was no defense.
The aboriginal micro-organisms here did not attack wastes of introduced terrestrial types.
Familiar micro-organisms and a standard vegetation added to the practicality of human settlements on otherwise alien worlds.
There were plants, as has come about wherever micro-organisms have broken down rock to a state where it can nourish vegetation.
Today, in the human bloodstream, are micro-organisms which, a scant year ago, would have caused a painful and violent death.
The micro-organisms which once threatened his life now work with his body to maintain its functions.