bacterialess

bacterialess

English

Etymology

bacteria +‎ -less

Adjective

bacterialess (not comparable)

1. without bacteria.
   • 1900, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, page 263:

     You may have it bacterialess through one filter and 50 or 100 coming away in another one side by side.

   • 1913, The Homœopathic Recorder, page 117:

     As 606 has been succeeded by 1001, or something to that effect, so have bacterial products been succeeded by bacterialess products known as "Phylacogens".

   • 1917, Henry Fairfield Osborn, The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and Interaction of Energy, London G. Bell 1918., page 80:

     A bacterialess earth and a bacterialess ocean would soon be uninhabitable either for plants or animals; conversely, it is probable that bacteria-like organisms prepared both the earth and the ocean for the further evolution of plants and animals, and that life passed through a very long bacterial stage.