Definitions for microbe

microbe mi·crobe

Spelling: [mahy-krohb]
IPA: /ˈmaɪ kroʊb/

Microbe is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in microbe (bceimor).

Definitions for microbe

noun

  1. a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.

Origin of microbe

1880-85; French Greek mīkro- micro- + bíos life

Examples for microbe

When we discover a microbe of that nature, we will be ready to act.

It is then said that the virulence of the microbe is attenuated.

What is to determine whether you are on the side of the man or the microbe?

Why do we respect the opinions of any man or any microbe that ever lived?

My failure to see a microbe is a statement about the precision of my instrument, not about whether there is a microbe on the leaf.

It usually occurs about a wound, and is due to infection by this microbe.

"We don't see the microbe themselves but we large scale structures that the microbes constructed before they died," he said.

It is caused by a microbe which has been recently discovered (Spirochæta pallida).

Kessler discovered the microbe required an intermediate host.

Then with the Christian Science microbe in the house, there's no telling what may happen to you.

Word Value for microbe
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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