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zooglea

zooglea is the alternative form of zoogloea.

Meaning of zoogloea

Noun

zoogloea (plural zoogloeas or zoogloeae)

  1. A colony or mass of bacteria embedded in a viscous gelatinous substance, characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution.

Forms of zooglea

pluralzoogleas
pluralzoogleae

Words formed from zooglea

Questions about zooglea

What is zooglea the alternative form of?
Zooglea is the alternative form of zoogloea.

Words near zooglea in the dictionary

  1. zoogeographically
  2. zoogeographies
  3. zoogeography
  4. zoogeological
  5. zoogeology
  6. zooglea
  7. zoogleae
  8. zoogleal
  9. zoogleas
  10. zoogleic
  11. zoogler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zooglea (page history and authors); zoogloea (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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