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Definition: Anaerobe |
AnaerobeNoun1. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Life | Microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile, methanogen, archaebacteria, microaerophile. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Anaerobe |
| English words defined with "anaerobe": obligate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "anaerobe": Dichelobacter nodosus ♦ Staphylococcus epidermidis. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Enterococcus (streptococcus) faecalis, a facultative anaerobe, is a normal inhabitant of intestinal tract and female genital tract and is occasionally associated with urinary tract infection, bacteremia and bacterial endocarditis. Credit: CDC. | |
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Expressions using "anaerobe": facultative anaerobe ♦ obligate anaerobe. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anaerobe | 6 |
anaerobe system | 5 |
anaerobe obligate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "anaerobe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | المتعضى اللاهوائي (anerobe). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | анаероб. (various references) | |
Chinese | 嫌气性细菌 (Anaerobes). (various references) | |
Danish | anaerob organisme, anaerob bakterie (anaerobic bacteria), anaerob (anaerobic). (various references) | |
Dutch | anaëroob (anaerobic), anaërobe bacterie (anaerobic bacteria). (various references) | |
Finnish | anaerobinen bakteeri (anaerobic bacteria), anaerobi. (various references) | |
French | anaérobie (anaerobic), anaérobe, bactérie anaérobie (anaerobic bacteria). (various references) | |
German | Anaerobionte (anaerobic bacteria), Anaerobiont, Anaerobier, Anaerobe (anaerobic bacteria). (various references) | |
Greek | αναερόβια βακτήρια (anaerobic bacteria), αναερόβιοσ οργανισμόσ, αναερόβιος (anaerobic). (various references) | |
Hungarian | levegõben nem létezõ baktérium. (various references) | |
Italian | anaerobio (anaerobic bacteria). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 嫌気生物 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けんきせいぶつ. (various references) | |
Korean | 혐기성 (Anaerobes, Anaerobic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anaerobeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anaeróbio (anaerobic). (various references) | |
Romanian | anaerob (anaerobic). (various references) | |
Russian | анаэроб. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | anaerobnost. (various references) | |
Spanish | anaerobio (anaerobic). (various references) | |
Swedish | anaerob (anaerobic). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | анаероб. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anaerobe": anaerobes. (additional references) | |
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"Anaerobe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anaero, Anuarbek. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-n-o-r" | |
-2 letters: aerobe, borane, boreen, enrobe. | |
-3 letters: anear, areae, arena, baron, beano, boner, borne, ranee. | |
-4 letters: aeon, aero, anoa, area, bane, bare, barn, bean, bear, been, beer, bene, boar, bone, bora, bore, born, brae, bran, bree, bren, earn, ebon, erne, nabe, near, roan, robe. | |
-5 letters: aba, abo, ana, ane, arb, are, baa, ban, bar, bee, ben. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: anaerobes. | |
+2 letters: baronetage, reasonable. | |
+3 letters: baronetages, decarbonate, forbearance, overbalance, treasonable, unelaborate. | |
+4 letters: adorableness, anaerobioses, decarbonated, decarbonates, exacerbation, forbearances, nonbreakable, nonrepayable, overbalanced, overbalances, unreasonable. | |
+5 letters: elaborateness, exacerbations, favorableness, nondegradable, nonmeasurable, overabundance. | |
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