bacterial
English
Etymology
bacteria + -al
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bækˈtɪəɹiəɫ]
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Adjective
bacterial (not comparable)
- (microbiology) Of, relating to, or caused by bacteria.
- 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
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Derived terms
- abacterial
- acidobacterial
- actinobacterial
- agrobacterial
- alphaproteobacterial
- antibacterial
- archaebacterial
- arcobacterial
- arthrobacterial
- azotobacterial
- bacterial flora
- bacterialization
- bacterially
- bacterial meningitis
- bacterial wetwood
- betaproteobacterial
- bifibacterial
- bifidobacterial
- brevibacterial
- campylobacterial
- coccobacterial
- corynebacterial
- curvibacterial
- cyanobacterial
- deltaproteobacterial
- endobacterial
- enterobacterial
- epibacterial
- eubacterial
- extrabacterial
- flavobacterial
- fusobacterial
- gammaproteobacterial
- halobacterial
- heliobacterial
- interbacterial
- intrabacterial
- janthinobacterial
- microbacterial
- monobacterial
- multibacterial
- mycobacterial
- myobacterial
- myxobacterial
- nanobacterial
- nitrobacterial
- nonbacterial
- panbacterial
- paucibacterial
- peribacterial
- photobacterial
- phytobacterial
- polybacterial
- poribacterial
- propionibacterial
- proteobacterial
- protobacterial
- rhizobacterial
- roseobacterial
- sphingobacterial
- ultramicrobacterial
- zetaproteobacterial
Related terms
- bacterio-
Translations
of or caused by bacteria
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Anagrams
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Spanish
Etymology
bacteria + -al
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baɡteˈɾjal/ [baɣ̞.t̪eˈɾjal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: bac‧te‧rial
Adjective
bacterial (plural bacteriales)
- bacterial
- Synonym: bacteriano
Derived terms
- antibacterial