Word Meanings - BACTERIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to bacteria.

BACTERIAL
Of or pertaining to bacteria.
BACTERIA
See BACTERIUM
PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
SPIROBACTERIA
See MICROBACTERIA
PSEUDOBACTERIA
Microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria. Note: The globules which divide and develop in form of chains are organized beings; when this
MICROBACTERIA
In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria. Note: In this classification bacteria are divided into four tribes: 1. Spherobacteria, or spherical bacteria, as the genus Micrococcus. 2. Microbacteria, or bacteria in the form
SPHEROBACTERIA
See MICROBACTERIA
DESMOBACTERIA
See MICROBACTERIA
ANTIBACTERIAL
Inimical to bacteria; -- applied esp. to serum for protection against bacterial diseases. Opposed to the bacterial theory of disease.
STREPTOBACTERIA
A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach