Definitions for microbes

microbes mi·crobe

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

Microbes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 374 anagrams from letters in microbes (bceimors).

Definitions for microbes

noun

  1. a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.

Origin of microbes

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

Examples for microbes

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.

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

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

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

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

Kessler discovered the microbe required an intermediate host.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for microbes
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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