Definitions for bacteria

bacteria bac·te·ri·a

Spelling: [bak-teer-ee-uh]
IPA: /bækˈtɪər i ə/

Bacteria is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 308 anagrams from letters in bacteria (aabceirt).

Definitions for bacteria

plural noun

  1. ubiquitous one-celled organisms, spherical, spiral, or rod-shaped and appearing singly or in chains, comprising the Schizomycota, a phylum of the kingdom Monera (in some classification systems the plant class Schizomycetes), various species of which are involved in fermentation, putrefaction, infectious diseases, or nitrogen fixation.

Origin of bacteria

1905-10; New Latin Greek baktḗria, plural of baktḗrion; see bacterium

Examples for bacteria

Phim sticks to it, too; tells me my peg is downright encouragement to the bacteria.

On the other hand, the population of the other major group of bacteria, Bacteroidetes, increased.

The more antibiotics are used inappropriately, the greater the risk of bacteria growing resistant to them.

Allen says that some strains of bacteria may be potentially beneficial for some people but harmful to others.

If all animals vanished, most bacteria would still live on, but if all bacteria disappeared, we would die quickly.

This disease is caused by bacteria, of which you have read in another section.

But consider that when we eat, the bacteria are actually fed first.

A simple experiment will show that no bacteria will exist in that vapor.

bacteria that do not bother you very much might be deadly to us.

There seems to be no bacteria in the abysses, so there can be no rotting.

Word Value for bacteria
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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