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vibriones

vibriones is the plural of vibrio.

Meaning of vibrio

Noun

vibrio (plural vibrios or vibriones)

  1. Any of several bacteria, of the genus Vibrio, shaped like a curved rod.
    • "He dips it into the poison and they are gone. Our Gardener is, in my opinion, about to dip the solar system, and the human bacillus, the little mortal vibrio which twisted and wriggled upon the outer rind of the earth, will in an instant be sterilized out of existence."1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Questions about vibriones

What is vibriones the plural of?
Vibriones is the plural of vibrio.

Words near vibriones in the dictionary

  1. vibrioid
  2. vibriolysin
  3. vibrion
  4. vibrionacean
  5. vibrionaceans
  6. vibriones
  7. vibrionic
  8. vibrions
  9. vibriophage
  10. vibriophages
  11. vibrioplankton

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