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bacterivorous

bacterivorous adjective: feeding on bacteria.

Adjective

bacterivorous (not comparable)

  1. feeding on bacteria.

Origin of bacterivorous

From bacteria + -vorous.

Questions about bacterivorous

What does bacterivorous mean?
Bacterivorous means feeding on bacteria.
What part of speech is bacterivorous?
Bacterivorous is an adjective.

Words near bacterivorous in the dictionary

  1. bacteriuria
  2. bacteriurias
  3. bacteriuric
  4. bacterivore
  5. bacterivores
  6. bacterivorous
  7. bacterivory
  8. bacterization
  9. bacterizations
  10. bacterize
  11. bacterized

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