microbes

Meaning of microbes

plural noun

a microorganism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation.

late 19th century: from French, from Greek mikros ‘small’ + bios ‘life’.

Information about microbes

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of microbes is: microbe.
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Hyphenation of microbes

mi-crobes

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • microbes is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

microbes synonyms

Meaning a microscopic organism, especially a bacterium, virus, or fungus:

microorganism

Meaning a rod-shaped bacterium:

bacillus

Meaning a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease:

bacterium

Meaning an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host:

virus

Meaning a microorganism, especially one which causes disease:

germ

Meaning an illness caused by a microorganism:

bug

Anagrams of microbes

crombies

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