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bacteria
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /bæk?t??.i.?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /bæk?t???.?.?/
- Rhymes: -??i?
- Rhymes: -???i?
Etymology 1
From New Latin bacteria, plural of bacterium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (bakt?rion), neuter diminutive of ???????? (bakt?ría, “rod, stick”) (cognate with English peg).
Noun
bacteria
- plural of bacterium
bacteria (plural bacterias)
- (US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium.
- (US, proscribed) Alternative form of bacterium.
- (derogatory, slang) A derisive term for a lowlife or a slob (could be treated as plural or singular).
Usage notes
- This is the plural form of the word. While it is often used as if it were singular (as a collective noun), this is considered nonstandard by some in the US and more elsewhere. See the usage examples under bacterium.
Derived terms
- Bacteria
- Eubacteria
- Archaebacteria / Archebacteria
- eubacteria
- archaebacteria / archebacteria
Translations
see also under bacterium
See also
- culture (collective noun)
Etymology 2
From New Latin bacteria, from Ancient Greek ???????? (bakt?ría, “rod, stick”).
Noun
bacteria (plural bacteriae)
- (dated, medicine) An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.
Anagrams
- Arabetic, race-bait
Galician
Noun
bacteria f (plural bacterias)
- bacterium
Latin
Noun
bact?ria
- nominative plural of bact?rium
- accusative plural of bact?rium
- vocative plural of bact?rium
Spanish
Etymology
From New Latin bacteria, plural of bact?rium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (bakt?rion).
Noun
bacteria f (plural bacterias)
- bacterium
Derived terms
- antibacteria
- bacterial
- bacteriano
Further reading
- “bacteria” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
bacteria From the web:
- what bacteria causes strep throat
- what bacteria is associated with food poisoning
- what bacteria causes uti
- what bacteria causes pneumonia
- what bacteria causes tuberculosis
- what bacteria causes syphilis
- what bacteria causes lyme disease
- what bacteria causes food poisoning
clindamycin
English
Etymology
From chl(or)- +? [Term?] +? lin(co)mycin.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kl?n.d??ma?.sn?/
Noun
clindamycin (uncountable)
- (pharmacology) A lincosamide antibiotic drug C18H33ClN2O5S, mostly used to treat infections with anaerobic bacteria.
Translations
References
- “clindamycin”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
clindamycin From the web:
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