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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)
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xanthan
English
Noun
xanthan (plural xanthans)
- (biochemistry) A polysaccharide, consisting of galactose and mannose residues, produced by the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris
Derived terms
- xanthan gum
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