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bacterioid

bacterioid is the alternative form of bacteroid.

Meaning of bacteroid

Adjective

bacteroid (comparative more bacteroid, superlative most bacteroid)

  1. Resembling bacteria.
    • bacteroid particles

See all 4 meanings of bacteroid

Forms of bacterioid

Adjective
comparativemore bacterioid
superlativemost bacterioid
Noun
pluralbacterioids

Origin of bacterioid

By surface analysis, bacter- + -ioid.

Questions about bacterioid

What is bacterioid the alternative form of?
Bacterioid is the alternative form of bacteroid.

Words near bacterioid in the dictionary

  1. bacteriohopanes
  2. bacteriohopanetetrol
  3. bacteriohopanetetrols
  4. bacteriohopanoid
  5. bacteriohopanoids
  6. bacterioid
  7. bacterioidal
  8. bacterioids
  9. bacteriol
  10. bacteriol.
  11. bacteriologic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bacterioid (page history and authors); bacteroid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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