microorganism

mi·cro·or·gan·ism

M0275400 (mī′krō-ôr′gə-nĭz′əm)n. An organism or infectious agent of microscopic or submicroscopic size, especially a bacterium or protozoan.

microorganism

(ˌmaɪkrəʊˈɔːɡəˌnɪzəm) n (Microbiology) any organism, such as a bacterium, protozoan, or virus, of microscopic size

mi•cro•or•gan•ism

(ˌmaɪ kroʊˈɔr gəˌnɪz əm)

n. any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria or some fungi and algae. [1875–80] mi`cro•or•gan′ic (-ɔrˈgæn ɪk)
adj.

mi·cro·or·gan·ism

(mī′krō-ôr′gə-nĭz′əm) An organism that can be seen only with the aid of a microscope. Microorganisms include bacteria, protozoans, algae, and fungi. See Note at germ.

microorganism

any one of a large variety of microscopic or ultramicroscopic organisms, as bacteria, viruses, etc.See also: Organisms

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

microorganism - any organism of microscopic size micro-organismorganism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independentlyanimal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movementplant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotionmonad - (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)intestinal flora - harmless microorganisms (as Escherichia coli) that inhabit the intestinal tract and are essential for its normal functioningvirus - (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of proteinmoneran, moneron - organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesisbacteria, bacterium - (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plantsmicrobe, germ, bug - a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical usepathogen - any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)protoctist - any of the unicellular protistsprotist, protistan - free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modespilus - hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganismvirulence, virulency - extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease); "the virulence of the plague"transmitter, vector - any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects"microflora - microscopic plants; bacteria are often considered to be microflorabacteremia, bacteriaemia, bacteriemia - transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood

microorganism

also micro-organism
nounA minute organism usually producing disease:bug, germ, microbe.

Translations

микроорганизмmikroorganizma