bacteroid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bacteroid	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bacteroid adj resembling bacteria [syn: bacteroidal, bacteroid, bacterioidal, bacterioid] n a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bacteroid \Bac"teroid\, Bacteroidal \Bac`teroid"al\, a. [Bacterium + -oid.] (Biol.) Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.