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bacteroid

bacteroid noun: a micro-organism such as a bacterium or yeast.

Noun

bacteroid (plural bacteroids)

  1. (dated) A micro-organism such as a bacterium or yeast.
  2. A bacterium of the species Bacteroides.
  3. A symbiotic form of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Rhizobia, or the root nodule that it produces.

Adjective

bacteroid (comparative more bacteroid, superlative most bacteroid)

  1. Resembling bacteria.
    • bacteroid particles

bacteroid meaning in Bengali

bacteroid in Bengali

বিশেষত উদ্ভিদের মূলগুটি

Forms of bacteroid

Noun
pluralbacteroids
Adjective
comparativemore bacteroid
superlativemost bacteroid

Origin of bacteroid

From bacterium + -oid.

Words formed from bacteroid

Questions about bacteroid

What does bacteroid mean?
Bacteroid means a micro-organism such as a bacterium or yeast.
What is bacteroid in Bengali?
Bacteroid in Bengali is বিশেষত উদ্ভিদের মূলগুটি. See Bacteroid meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is bacteroid?
Bacteroid can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of bacteroid?
The plural of bacteroid is bacteroids.

Words near bacteroid in the dictionary

  1. bacterizations
  2. bacterize
  3. bacterized
  4. bacterizes
  5. bacterizing
  6. bacteroid
  7. bacteroidal
  8. bacteroidete
  9. bacteroidetes
  10. bacteroids
  11. bacteruria

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bacteroid (page history and authors); bacteroid (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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