microbiology

microbiology

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ biology

Noun

microbiology (uncountable)

1. (biology) The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms, especially their effects on man and other living organisms.

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:microbiology

Related terms

• microbiological
• microbiologist

Derived terms

• astromicrobiology
• geomicrobiology
• palaeomicrobiology
• paleomicrobiology
• sociomicrobiology
• soil microbiology
• xenomicrobiology

 

Translations

branch of biology dealing with microorganisms

Albanian: mikrobiologji (sq) f Armenian: մանրէաբանություն (hy) (manrēabanutʿyun) Asturian: microbioloxía f Burmese: အဏုဇီဝဗေဒ (a.nu.jiwa.beda.) Catalan: microbiologia f Chinese: Mandarin: 微生物學 (zh), 微生物学 (zh) (wéishēngwùxué) Czech: mikrobiologie (cs) f Dutch: microbiologie (nl) Esperanto: mikrobiologio Estonian: mikrobioloogia (et) Finnish: mikrobiologia (fi) French: microbiologie (fr) f Galician: microbioloxía f German: Mikrobiologie (de) f Greenlandic: bakterianik ilinniut Ido: mikrobiologio (io) Irish: micri-bhitheolaíocht f Italian: microbiologia (it) f Japanese: 微生物学 (ja) (びせいぶつがく, biseibutsugaku)

Khmer: អតិសុខុមជីវវិទ្យា (km) (ate sokʰom chiivea vityie) Korean: 미생물학 (ko) (misaengmulhak) (微生物學 (ko)) Latvian: mikrobioloģija (lv) f Maori: mātai koiora moroiti Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠯ ᠠᠮᠢᠨ ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ (ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠯ ᠠᠮᠢᠨ ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ), бичил амин судлал (bičil amin sudlal) Navajo: chʼosh doo yitʼíinii naalkaah Norwegian: Bokmål: mikrobiologi (no) m Nynorsk: mikrobiologi m Novial: mikrobiologia Polish: mikrobiologia (pl) f Portuguese: microbiologia (pt) f Romanian: microbiologie (ro) f Russian: микробиоло́гия (ru) f (mikrobiológija) Spanish: microbiología f Swedish: mikrobiologi (sv) c Tagalog: mikhaynayan Turkish: mikrobiyoloji (tr) Vietnamese: vi sinh vật học (微生物學)