Bacteria

Definition: Bacteria

Bacteria

Noun

1. Single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered plants.

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Date "bacteria" was first used: 1847. (references)

Energy

Environment

Health

Medicine

Weather

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Synonym: Bacteria

Disease

Virus, bacterium, bacteria.

Littleness

Animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria; microbe; grub; tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble.

Crosswords: Bacteria

Spanish (bacteria, bacterium, germ).

Even animals lick themselves clean! I spend a lot of time with my boys in the shower, and I teach them that even body odour isn't just smell: it's bacteria, it's germs (Habitat; writing credit: Rene Daalder)

Support bacteria, they're the only culture some people have. (references; author: unknown)

Enemy Bacteria (1945)

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Books

• Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria (Storey Medicinal Herb Guide) (reference)

• Reference Agar Dilution Procedure for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Anaerobic Bacteria (reference)

• Fungi, bacteria, and pathogenic algae on plants in American Samoa (reference)

• Textbook of Botany: Vol. I: Algae, Fungi, Bacteria, Virus, Lichens, Mycoplasma & Elementary Plant Pathology (reference)

• Anaerobic Bacteria (reference)

  (more book examples)

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A bacteria mix is spread on an agar plate. From that plate, a recombinant clone containing a gene of interest is lifted. Then large amounts of the bacteria are grown and the plasma is harvested. The DNA is then extracted and used for studying genes, including oncogenes. Also in the same setting is a male, oriental scientist holding an agar plate. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Shown are laboratory flasks. Recently scientists have learned to make interferon in bacteria, growing such microorganisms on simple nutrients in flasks, as shown. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Treating pets with insecticidal dust to kill fleas that could come into contact with humans can help control the spread of plague bacteria. Credit: CDC.

A blocked flea, i.e. dark spots in stomach, is unable to ingest its blood meal because of a mass of bacteria within the proventriculus, preventing passage of food from the esophagus to the stomach. Credit: CDC.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Oyster and clam beds are closed in some portions of estuaries due to high levels fecal coliform bacteria, an indicator of sewage pollution. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Hydrothermal vent tubeworms get energy from bacteria that live in their plumes. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Minerals venting from the seafloor, provide chemosynthetic sustenance for bacteria, some of Earth's earliest life,. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Filtering system in use on hog operation on a farm in Taylor County, Iowa. The system uses a series of hillside terraces that form constructed wetlands that also use bacteria to purify wastewater from a hog operation. Early tests indicated the water was. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Water sample taken from the lagoon in a filtering system in use on a farm in Taylor County, Iowa. The system uses a series of hillside terraces that form constructed wetlands that also use bacteria to purify wastewater from a hog operation. See NRCS-IA-99. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Does the thought of socks and underwear conjure up concerns about bacteria? Yes, microbes can reside and multiply in textile fabrics. But no matter-ARS researchers have developed treatments for cotton textiles with compounds containing peroxides. they resist bacteria and, as a bonus, resist fungi that cause athlete's foot. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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Health

Our mouths are full of bacteria. (references)

Whipple's disease is caused by bacteria. (references)

Rodents can carry and spread the bacteria. (references)

Business

Water purification systems used in major cities and towns of Northwest Russia are substandard, and bacteria are routinely present in drinking water. (references)

Scrap tires are not themselves hazardous material, but tires held in open storage have become breeding grounds for bacteria and microorganisms of health concern. (references)

The sea ports and the Navy bases of Archangelsk and Severodvinsk continue to pollute the river of Northern Dvina, the major source of drinking water for those cities, where tap water is characterized by a high level of bacteria. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

These include Kozloduy (Bulgaria's nuclear power plant), Bulgarian State Railways, Bulgarian Posts, Education and Sciences, El Bi Bulgarikum (producer of yogurt bacteria), National Cadastral Company, National Geodesy Company, Geopribor (geological equipment), Cartography Company, Geozashtita (geological protection), Vodokanalenzhenir (water pipe engineering), and all specialized hospitals and free zones. (references)

Trade

Israel

Outside and inside containers of dangerous articles, such as poisons, insecticides, drugs, flammable goods, ammunition, explosives, reptiles, insects, bacteria and radioactive materials should be clearly marked. (references)

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Expressions using "bacteria": acetic acid bacteria ♦ bacteria bed ♦ bacteria bed arm ♦ bacteria family ♦ bacteria genus ♦ bacteria order ♦ bacteria species ♦ Budding and Appendaged Bacteria ♦ colony of bacteria ♦ culture of bacteria ♦ Endospore-Forming Bacteria ♦ enteric bacteria ♦ Gliding Bacteria ♦ Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria ♦ Gram-Negative Anaerobic Bacteria ♦ Gram-Negative Bacteria ♦ Gram-Negative Chemolithotrophic Bacteria ♦ Gram-Negative Oxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria ♦ Gram-Positive Bacteria ♦ Gram-Positive Endospore-Forming Bacteria ♦ Green Sulfur Bacteria ♦ INA+ bacteria ♦ iron bacteria ♦ Legionella bacteria ♦ nitric bacteria ♦ nitrous bacteria ♦ nodule bacteria ♦ phototrophic bacteria ♦ phototropic bacteria ♦ potato scab bacteria ♦ pseudomonas bacteria ♦ purple bacteria ♦ ring rot bacteria ♦ slime bacteria ♦ Spiral and Curved Bacteria ♦ strain of bacteria ♦ sulfur bacteria ♦ Sulfur-Reducing Bacteria ♦ sulphur bacteria ♦ true bacteria. Additional references.

Beginning with "bacteria": bacteria-fighting, bacteria-free, bacteria-killers, bacteria-laden, bacteria-like, bacteria-negative.

Ending with "bacteria": INA-bacteria.

Albanian

bakter (bacterium). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جراثيم, ‏بكتيريا (microorganism). (various references)

Bulgarian 

бактерии. (various references)

Chinese 

霉 (fungi, moldy), 菌 (dish, germ, mold, mushroom, vegetables), 黴 (fungi, moldy), 细菌 (Bacterial, bacterially, Bacterium). (various references)

Czech

baktérie (bacterium). (various references)

Danish

bakterier (microbial growth), bakterie flora (microbial growth). (various references)

Dutch

bacteriën (microbial growth, rod-shaped bacillus), bacteria. (various references)

Finnish

bakteeri (bacterium). (various references)

French

bactéries, bactérie (bacterium), flore microbienne, excrétion. (various references)

German

bakterien (bacteriums, germs). (various references)

Greek 

βακτηρίδια, βακτήρια (bacilli, staff). (various references)

Hebrew 

בקטרי�" (bacterium, microorganism). (various references)

Hungarian

baktérium (bacterium, germ, microbe, wog). (various references)

Indonesian

bakteri. (various references)

Italian

batteri. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

黴菌 (germ), バイヤー法 (all-terrain vehicle, baccalaureat, bacteriophage, Bagdad, baggy look, bagpipe, baguette, basilisk, bass, bassoon, bath, baumkuchen, Bayer process, bazaar, bilingual, bind, binder, binding, bounce, bound, bow side, bucket, budget, bug, bug fix, bug list, bug report, bugbear, buggy, bus, by-line, holidays, honey wagon, pail, sand buggy, surf clam, vacation, vacuum, vacuum car, vacuum cleaner, vagabond, vagina), ばい菌 (a sure thing, abruptly, be dry, disconnected, disperse, divorced, flop, germ, in drops, in pieces, loose, only, perfectly, plump, properly, right on the mark, rustle, rustling, scattered, suddenly, to be exhausted, to be worn out, to expose, to kill, to lay open, to murder, to take to pieces, unexpectedly, with a bang, with a clash, with a thud). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

バクテリア , ばいき�" (germ). (various references)

Korean 

박테리아 (Bacterium). (various references)

Norwegian

bakterier. (various references)

Pig Latin

acteriabay.(various references)

Portuguese

bactérias. (various references)

Romanian

bacterie (bug, germ). (various references)

Russian 

бактерия (bacterium), бактерии. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bakterija. (various references)

Spanish

bacteria (bacterium, germ). (various references)

Swedish

bakterie (bacterium, bug, germ, microbe). (various references)

Turkish

bakteriler. (various references)

Turkmen 

bakteria (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

бактерії. (various references)

bakterion. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bacteria": bacterial, bacterially, bacterias. (additional references)

Words ending with "bacteria": archaebacteria, corynebacteria, cyanobacteria, enterobacteria, mycobacteria. (additional references)

Words containing "bacteria": abacterial, antibacterial, antibacterials, corynebacterial, enterobacterial, mycobacterial, nonbacterial. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bacteria" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acetaria, bacter, bacteri, bacterian, bacterias, bacterie, bacteries, bactiera, Bactigras, bactria, bactrian, Bactriana, Bactris, bakhtir, baktiari, Baktria, baktrian, Barteria, basserama, batteria, Becerra, bekerian, berteroi, Sachturia. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: abreact, bearcat, cabaret.

-2 letters: abater, arabic, baiter, barite, carate, caribe, rebait, terbia, terbic.

-3 letters: abaci, abate, acari, acerb, aceta, aecia, areca, areic, atria, baric, biter, brace, bract, caber, carat, caret, carte, cater, ceiba, ceria, citer, crate, erica, irate, rabat, rabic, react, reata, recta, recti, retia, riata, taber, terai, tiara, trace, triac, tribe, trice.

+1 letter: aerobatic, bacterial, bacterias, brachiate, calibrate, fabricate.

+2 letters: abacterial, abreacting, abreaction, acerbating, aerobatics, bacteremia, brachiated, brachiates, calibrated, calibrates, charitable, fabricated, fabricates.

+3 letters: abreactions, abstractive, articulable, bacteremias, bacterially, bacteriuria, bicarbonate, intractable, practicable, recalibrate, trafficable.

+4 letters: accreditable, bactericidal, bacteriostat, bacteriurias, bicarbonates, bureaucratic, cabinetmaker, circulatable, distractable, exacerbating, exacerbation, mycobacteria, nonbacterial, prefabricate, recalibrated, recalibrates, scatterbrain, secobarbital, semiabstract, tabernacling, traceability, uncalibrated, uncharitable.