different between bacterium vs bacteriophagous
bacterium
English
Etymology
From New Latin bact?rium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (bakt?rion, “small staff”), from ???????? (bakt?ría).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæk?t???.??m/
Noun
bacterium (plural bacteria)
- (microbiology) A single celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.
Usage notes
- In most formal writing, bacterium is the singular form of the noun, and bacteria the plural form. This is in accord with the word's Latin etymology. However, in ordinary speech, some speakers use bacteria as a singular, with plural either bacteria or bacterias. This is usually considered nonstandard.
Hypernyms
- prokaryote
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:bacterium
Derived terms
- eubacterium
- archaebacterium / archebacterium
- urobacterium
- bacterial
Translations
Further reading
- bacterium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
See also
- bacillus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????????? (bakt?rion, “small staff”), from ???????? (bakt?ría).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /bak?te?.ri.um/, [bäk?t?e??i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /bak?te.ri.um/, [b?k?t????ium]
Noun
bact?rium n (genitive bact?ri? or bact?r?); second declension
- (microbiology) bacterium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- bacterium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
bacterium From the web:
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- 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
bacteriophagous
English
Etymology
From bacterio- (“bacteria”) +? -phagous (“eating”).
Adjective
bacteriophagous (comparative more bacteriophagous, superlative most bacteriophagous)
- Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
Related terms
- bacteriophage
- bacteriophagy
bacteriophagous From the web:
- what bacteriophages do
- what are bacteriophages made of
- what are bacteriophages in the food supply
- what do bacteriophages attack
- what do bacteriophages infect quizlet
- what are bacteriophages class 11
- what do bacteriophages cause
- what are bacteriophages used for
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