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microbes

microbes is the plural of microbe.

Meaning of microbe

Noun

microbe (plural microbes)

  1. Any microorganism; (loosely, nonscientifically) especially, a harmful bacterium.
    • We humans and other complex animals are full of microbes, gajillions of them. People have so many that microbe cells living in our bodies outnumber our own vastly.2015 March 13, Ben Brumfield, “You may be your germs: Microbe genes slipped into human DNA, study says”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2018

Questions about microbes

What is microbes the plural of?
Microbes is the plural of microbe.

Words near microbes in the dictionary

  1. microbenchmarking
  2. microbenchmarks
  3. microbend
  4. microbenthic
  5. microbenthos
  6. microbes
  7. microbia
  8. microbial
  9. microbial clock
  10. microbial clocks
  11. microbial fuel cell

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