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vibrios

vibrios 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 vibrios

What is vibrios the plural of?
Vibrios is the plural of vibrio.

Words near vibrios in the dictionary

  1. vibrionic
  2. vibrions
  3. vibriophage
  4. vibriophages
  5. vibrioplankton
  6. vibrios
  7. vibrioses
  8. vibriosis
  9. vibriostatic
  10. vibriotic
  11. vibriovirus

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