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microbe

[ mahy-krohb ]

noun

  1. a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.


microbe

/ ˈmaɪkrəʊb /

noun

  1. any microscopic organism, esp a disease-causing bacterium


microbe

/ krōb′ /

  1. A microorganism, especially a bacterium that causes disease.
  2. See Note at germ


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Derived Forms

  • miˈcrobial, adjective

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Other Words From

  • microbe·less adjective
  • mi·crobi·al mi·crobic mi·crobi·an adjective
  • nonmi·crobic adjective
  • unmi·crobi·al adjective
  • unmi·crobic adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of microbe1

1880–85; < French < Greek mīkro- micro- + bíos life

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Word History and Origins

Origin of microbe1

C19: from French, from micro- + Greek bios life

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Example Sentences

"We don't see the microbe themselves but we large scale structures that the microbes constructed before they died," he said.

My failure to see a microbe is a statement about the precision of my instrument, not about whether there is a microbe on the leaf.

The final proof was the cure of the patient by an autogenous vaccine made of the offending microbe.

The sheep get scabby from a microbe under the skin, which causes them to itch fearfully, and they lose their wool.

Yet it would be better to begin by doing so, before bringing the preservative microbe on the scene.

Their hands clasped in the brief, tight greeting of the West that is death to the hand-shake microbe.

The same takes place with the spirilla of recurrent typhus and the microbe of erysipelas.

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