microbe : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: microbe	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for microbe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
microbe n a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use Synonym(s): microbe, bug, germ
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Microbe \Mi"crobe\, d8Microbion \[d8]Micro"bion\, n. [NL. microbion, fr. Gr. [?] little + [?] life.] (Biol.) A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.