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ubiquiter

ubiquiter noun: a microorganism that can be found in most types of environment.

Noun

ubiquiter (plural ubiquiters)

  1. (rare) A microorganism that can be found in most types of environment.
    • Frequently they are widely distributed forms (ubiquiters) which require high concentrations of easily assimilable nutrients.1985, Gerhard Rheinheimer, Aquatic Microbiology, page 185
  2. (obsolete) A ubiquitarian.
    • Let me be aquent off your mynd heirin with the first for I can not be ane ubiquiter, and all is one to me quhither I be at hom or abrod, bot louk ye to the touns best and worst and I sal obay, bot as said is let me know in tym.1634-44, Aberdeen (Scotland). Town Council, Aberdeen Council Letters
    • If one go to Germany, he will be an Ubiquiter, and in Rome a Papist, in Scotland a Christian, — in as many places as many forms.1844, William Maxwell Gunn (ed), Select works of Robert Rollock

Adjective

ubiquiter (comparative more ubiquiter, superlative most ubiquiter)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Ubiquitous, widespread.
    • In the pigwashes prepared with well-waters of high nitrate-content —under certain conditions— the different ubiquiter, facultative anaerobe saprophyte soil-bacteria reduce the nitrate to nitrite in sufficient quantity to poison the animals.1959, XVIth International Veterinary Congress, Madrid, 21-27 May, 1959

Forms of ubiquiter

Noun
pluralubiquiters
Adjective
comparativemore ubiquiter
superlativemost ubiquiter

Origin of ubiquiter

From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -er.

Questions about ubiquiter

What does ubiquiter mean?
Ubiquiter means a microorganism that can be found in most types of environment.
What part of speech is ubiquiter?
Ubiquiter can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of ubiquiter?
The plural of ubiquiter is ubiquiters.

Words near ubiquiter in the dictionary

  1. ubiquitarianism
  2. ubiquitarians
  3. ubiquitaries
  4. ubiquitariness
  5. ubiquitary
  6. ubiquiter
  7. ubiquiters
  8. ubiquities
  9. ubiquitilation
  10. ubiquitin
  11. ubiquitin ligase

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