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bacteriophages

bacteriophages is the plural of bacteriophage.

Meaning of bacteriophage

Noun

bacteriophage (plural bacteriophages)

  1. A virus that specifically infects bacteria.
    • Another possibility is to enlist a bacteriophage, a kind of virus, to hunt down and kill harmful bacteria for us.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 54
    Synonyms:
    phage

Questions about bacteriophages

What is bacteriophages the plural of?
Bacteriophages is the plural of bacteriophage.

Words near bacteriophages in the dictionary

  1. bacterioopsins
  2. bacteriopathology
  3. bacteriophaeophytin
  4. bacteriophaeophytins
  5. bacteriophage
  6. bacteriophages
  7. bacteriophagia
  8. bacteriophagic
  9. bacteriophagous
  10. bacteriophagy
  11. bacteriopheophorbide

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