What is another word for bacteria?
680 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ baktˈi͡əɹɪə], [ baktˈiəɹɪə], [ b_a_k_t_ˈiə_ɹ_ɪ__ə]
Bacteria are tiny, single-celled organisms that play an essential role in many biological processes. The term bacteria is derived from the Greek word "bakterion," meaning a small rod or staff that is commonly found in soil, water, and on plants and animals. Other synonyms for bacteria include microorganisms, germs, microbes, pathogens, and bugs. Each of these terms refers to the many different types and species of bacteria that inhabit the world, some of which are beneficial to humans, while others can cause disease and illness. Understanding the different types of bacteria and their respective roles in the environment is crucial for maintaining and promoting overall health and wellbeing.
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Synonyms for Bacteria:
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- ameba .
- Mastigopod ,
- Microphyte ,
- amoeba ,
- animalcule ,
- bacillus ,
- dyad ,
- germ ,
- microbe ,
- micrococcus ,
- microorganism ,
- microspore ,
- paramecium ,
- protozoa ,
- rhizopod ,
- rotifer ,
- virus ,
- zoospore ,
- zygote .
Other synonyms:
- E. COLI ,
- MRSA ,
- decomposer ,
- hydra ,
- listeria ,
- mold ,
- parasite ,
- poison ,
- protozoan ,
- retrovirus ,
- streptococcus ,
- superbug ,
- unicellular .
- salmonella .
Other relevant words:
- 3 ,
- 4 ,
- acculturation ,
- acquired immune deficiency syndrome ,
- african-american ,
- agitation ,
- ailing ,
- ameban ,
- amebous ,
- amoeban ,
- amoebic ,
- amoebous ,
- anatoxin ,
- animalculum ,
- ant ,
- antimicrobic ,
- aviate ,
- babble ,
- bacterioid ,
- bacterioidal ,
- bacteroidal ,
- badger ,
- badly ,
- badness ,
- ball ,
- ballock ,
- banal ,
- barley ,
- begrime ,
- begrimed ,
- being ,
- belch ,
- beleaguer ,
- bemire ,
- benighted ,
- benumb ,
- big ,
- black eye ,
- black-market ,
- blacken ,
- blackened ,
- blackness ,
- bleak ,
- blind ,
- blue ,
- blue tit ,
- blunder ,
- blunder out ,
- blunt ,
- blur ,
- blurt ,
- blurt out ,
- boggy ,
- bollock ,
- boob ,
- bootleg ,
- boring ,
- bosom ,
- brace ,
- breast ,
- brood ,
- bum ,
- burble ,
- burp ,
- cadge ,
- calamitous ,
- cast ,
- center ,
- centre ,
- cheating ,
- child ,
- chocolate truffle ,
- chow ,
- chuck ,
- civilisation ,
- civilization ,
- clay sculpture ,
- clit ,
- clitoris ,
- cloudy ,
- cocci ,
- cold ,
- colly ,
- come ,
- commencement ,
- common chord ,
- commonplace ,
- computer mouse ,
- computer virus ,
- conceptus ,
- contagion ,
- contaminating ,
- contraband ,
- core ,
- couple ,
- couplet ,
- cover ,
- creep ,
- cultivation ,
- damp ,
- dampen ,
- darkness ,
- deadening ,
- decompose ,
- defective ,
- dense ,
- despicable ,
- determine ,
- deuce-ace ,
- dimmed ,
- dip ,
- dirt ball ,
- disastrous ,
- disconsolate ,
- disgraceful ,
- disinfectant ,
- distich ,
- dour ,
- dowding ,
- drear ,
- dreary ,
- duad ,
- duet ,
- dumb ,
- duo ,
- dusty ,
- earth-ball ,
- earthball ,
- earthnut ,
- eats ,
- eggs ,
- endoparasite ,
- endozoan ,
- entertain ,
- entoparasite ,
- entozoan ,
- envenom ,
- eruct ,
- essence ,
- faint ,
- false truffle ,
- fatal ,
- fateful ,
- fell ,
- fermentation ,
- fermenting ,
- fertilized egg ,
- fertilized ovum ,
- fillet ,
- filthy ,
- finish ,
- first ,
- flagellate protozoan ,
- flagellated ,
- flagellated protozoan ,
- flee ,
- fly ball ,
- fly front ,
- fly sheet ,
- flyblown ,
- forge ,
- forged ,
- form ,
- foul ,
- four ,
- foursome ,
- frowsty ,
- frowsy ,
- frumpish ,
- frumpy ,
- fry ,
- fungous ,
- fungus kingdom ,
- funguslike ,
- gat ,
- genus micrococcus ,
- get-go ,
- gist ,
- gloomy ,
- glowering ,
- glum ,
- golden oak mushroom ,
- grim ,
- grime ,
- grimy ,
- grubby ,
- grungy ,
- guggle ,
- gurgle ,
- hackneyed ,
- half-pint ,
- harbor ,
- hard-skinned puffball ,
- hatch ,
- haven ,
- heart ,
- heart and soul ,
- hemipteran ,
- hemipteron ,
- high-risk ,
- hint ,
- ho-hum ,
- hold ,
- house of cards ,
- ignominious ,
- iii ,
- ill humor ,
- ill-gotten ,
- indisposed ,
- influence ,
- inglorious ,
- intercept ,
- inwardness ,
- iv ,
- joseph black ,
- jot ,
- kickoff ,
- kid ,
- kingdom fungi ,
- knocker ,
- lash-like ,
- leaden ,
- leash ,
- leaven ,
- leech ,
- lightlessness ,
- louse ,
- lousy ,
- malice ,
- maliciousness ,
- mamilla ,
- mammilla ,
- marked-up ,
- marrow ,
- marshy ,
- mastigophoran ,
- mastigophore ,
- meat ,
- melanise ,
- melanize ,
- melt off ,
- minor ,
- mirky ,
- miry ,
- model ,
- modeling ,
- molder ,
- molding ,
- monas ,
- mooch ,
- moody ,
- mordant ,
- morose ,
- moth-eaten ,
- moulding ,
- mucky ,
- muddied ,
- muddy up ,
- muffle ,
- muffled ,
- murky ,
- mushroom cloud ,
- mushroom-shaped cloud ,
- mute ,
- muted ,
- negro ,
- negroid ,
- nematode worm ,
- nestling ,
- night ,
- nighttime ,
- nipper ,
- nipple ,
- nitty-gritty ,
- nonprogressive ,
- nub ,
- numb ,
- nurse ,
- nut ,
- obscure ,
- obtuse ,
- offset ,
- old-hat ,
- olive drab ,
- olive-drab ,
- opprobrious ,
- orchis ,
- oriental black mushroom ,
- origin ,
- outset ,
- pair ,
- pall ,
- pap ,
- peaked ,
- peewee ,
- perch ,
- pester ,
- pestiferous ,
- phylum protozoa ,
- pilot ,
- pinch ,
- pip-squeak ,
- pismire ,
- pitch blackness ,
- pitch-black ,
- pitch-dark ,
- pith ,
- poinsettia strain ,
- poisonous substance ,
- pole ,
- polish ,
- poorly ,
- prawn ,
- procaryote ,
- procaryotic ,
- protozoal ,
- protozoic ,
- push ,
- push button ,
- pussyfoot ,
- quadruplet ,
- quaggy ,
- quartet ,
- quatern ,
- quaternary ,
- quaternion ,
- quaternity ,
- rainfly ,
- raunchy ,
- reduce ,
- refinement ,
- regretful ,
- regulate ,
- release ,
- retinal rod ,
- rhizopodan ,
- ripple ,
- risky ,
- rod cell ,
- root ,
- rootage ,
- rot ,
- roundworm ,
- saprophytic organism ,
- saturnine ,
- scourge ,
- scruffy ,
- seamy ,
- seaport ,
- seed ,
- semen ,
- seminal fluid ,
- shadow ,
- shadowy ,
- shameful ,
- shape ,
- shaver ,
- shield ,
- shiitake ,
- shiner ,
- shoddy ,
- shopworn ,
- showtime ,
- sickly ,
- sinister ,
- sleazy ,
- slender ,
- slenderize ,
- slight ,
- slim down ,
- slimed ,
- sloppy ,
- sloughy ,
- slovenly ,
- slow ,
- sluggish ,
- slur ,
- smuggled ,
- smutty ,
- snake ,
- sneak ,
- sober ,
- softened ,
- soggy ,
- soil ,
- soiled ,
- somber ,
- sombre ,
- sordid ,
- sorry ,
- soupcon ,
- sour ,
- source ,
- span ,
- speck ,
- speculative ,
- spirilla ,
- spirochaete ,
- spite ,
- spitefulness ,
- spoiled ,
- spoilt ,
- sponge ,
- sponger ,
- squashy ,
- squirm ,
- squirt ,
- stamp ,
- standpat ,
- staph ,
- staphylococci ,
- start ,
- starting time ,
- stock ,
- streptococcal ,
- streptococci ,
- streptococcic ,
- subdued ,
- substance ,
- sullen ,
- sum ,
- svelte ,
- swampy ,
- take flight ,
- tap ,
- tease ,
- teat ,
- tedious ,
- tempestuousness ,
- tenia ,
- tent flap ,
- tent-fly ,
- tercet ,
- ternary ,
- ternion ,
- terzetto ,
- testicle ,
- testis ,
- thin ,
- threadbare ,
- three ,
- threesome ,
- thudding ,
- tiddler ,
- tierce ,
- tike ,
- timeworn ,
- tinge ,
- tiresome ,
- titmouse ,
- titty ,
- tone down ,
- total darkness ,
- touch ,
- tough ,
- toxicant ,
- transmission ,
- trey ,
- trine ,
- trinity ,
- trio ,
- triple ,
- triplet ,
- troika ,
- true puffball ,
- turbid ,
- turn ,
- twain ,
- twist ,
- twosome ,
- tyke ,
- ugly ,
- unclean ,
- uncollectible ,
- under the weather ,
- unfit ,
- unprogressive ,
- unrest ,
- unsound ,
- unsporting ,
- unsportsmanlike ,
- unwell ,
- unworthy ,
- vague ,
- vanish ,
- vaporize ,
- vibrion ,
- vile ,
- waterlogged ,
- wearisome ,
- well-worn ,
- whiplike ,
- wickedness ,
- wing ,
- wiretap ,
- wispy ,
- work ,
- worthless ,
- wrestle ,
- wretched ,
- wriggle ,
- writhe ,
- yoke ,
- youngster ,
- zymolysis ,
- zymosis .
- Lichens ,
- Microzoa ,
- Phytozoaria ,
- acidophil ,
- adenovirus ,
- aerobe ,
- aerobic bacteria ,
- amebic ,
- anaerobe ,
- anaerobic bacteria ,
- bacterial ,
- bacterium ,
- bad ,
- bamboo shoot ,
- barleycorn ,
- beginning ,
- black ,
- bubble ,
- bud ,
- bug ,
- button ,
- coccus ,
- communicable disease ,
- culture ,
- cum ,
- dark ,
- diatom ,
- dim ,
- dingy ,
- dirty ,
- dismal ,
- dowdy ,
- drab ,
- dull ,
- echovirus ,
- egg ,
- ejaculate ,
- embryo ,
- emmet ,
- enterovirus ,
- entozoon ,
- ferment ,
- flagellate ,
- fly ,
- frowzy ,
- fungi ,
- fungus ,
- fusty ,
- glitch ,
- gnat ,
- gonococcus ,
- grain of sand ,
- gram-negative bacteria ,
- gram-positive bacteria ,
- grub ,
- infection ,
- infusoria ,
- insect ,
- kernel ,
- maggot ,
- micro-organisms ,
- midge ,
- minnow ,
- mite ,
- moldy ,
- molehill ,
- monad ,
- mould ,
- moulder ,
- mouldy ,
- mouse ,
- muddy ,
- mustard seed ,
- musty ,
- nematode ,
- organisms ,
- pathogen ,
- pathogens ,
- pebble ,
- picornavirus ,
- plankton ,
- prokaryote ,
- protozoon ,
- rancid ,
- reovirus ,
- rhinovirus ,
- rickettsia ,
- rod ,
- runt ,
- saprophyte ,
- seedy ,
- shrimp ,
- slimy ,
- small fry ,
- spirillum ,
- spirochete ,
- spore ,
- sporozoon ,
- squalid ,
- stale ,
- staphylococcus ,
- tetrad ,
- tired ,
- tit ,
- tomtit ,
- triad ,
- trite ,
- trypanosome ,
- venom ,
- vibrio ,
- volvox ,
- worm .
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How to use "Bacteria" in context?
Bacteria are the most common form of life on Earth. There are over five hundred different types of bacteria, and they can be found in all types of environments. Bacteria play a key role in the food chain, digesting food and breaking it down into molecules that we can use. They can also help to produce oxygen by breaking down plant matter.
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
bacterium.
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Noun, singular or mass
bacterium.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
bacterial.
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Proper noun, singular
bacterial.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
bacteriological.
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Noun, plural
fungi, media, Agencies, Batteries, Bodies, Cells, Collaborations, Cultures, Diseases, Organizations, Spores, Strains, Viruses, counts, vectors, germs, microbes, microorganisms, organisms, pathogens, micro-organisms, antimicrobials.
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Noun, singular or mass
bacteriological, organism.
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Proper noun, singular
Homophones for Bacteria:
- basketry, beach aster, beech tree, buster, boaster, big tree, bookstore, bistro, basketeer, backwater, baby buster, bushy aster, Bay Stater, bog star, bistre, bestir, backscatter, beach heather, bass guitar, bigotry, begetter, babysitter, big sister, bister, baby-sitter, backdoor, bestiary, bog aster, back door, bustier, booster, Bestower, buckwheat tree, bestrew, basseterre, backstair, baster.
Hyponym for Bacteria:
n.
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animal
microorganism, micro-organism.
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animal
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