All bacterium synonyms

noun bacterium

• germ — a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
• germ — a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
• egg — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
• unit — a single thing or person.
• disease — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
• parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
• virus — an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• microbe — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• antibody — Antibodies are substances which a person's or an animal's body produces in their blood in order to destroy substances which carry disease.
• pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
• bacillus — A bacillus is any bacterium that has a long, thin shape.
• microorganism — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
• spore — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
• vacuole — a membrane-bound cavity within a cell, often containing a watery liquid or secretion.
• corpuscle — Corpuscles are red or white blood cells.
• follicle — Anatomy. a small cavity, sac, or gland. one of the small ovarian sacs containing an immature ovum; Graafian follicle.
• utricle — a small sac or baglike body, as an air-filled cavity in a seaweed.
• yeast — any of various small, single-celled fungi of the phylum Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding, the daughter cells often remaining attached, and that are capable of fermenting carbohydrates into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
• leavening — a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
• seethe — to surge or foam as if boiling.
• simmer — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
• leaven — a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
• mold — loose, friable earth, especially when rich in organic matter and favorable to the growth of plants.
• barm — the yeasty froth on fermenting malt liquors
• bacteria — Bacteria are very small organisms. Some bacteria can cause disease.
• ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
• crud — You use crud to refer to any disgustingly dirty or sticky substance.
• cellule — a very small cell