单词 | bacteria |
释义 | bacteria —bacterial, adj. —bacterially, adv. /bak tear"ee euh/, n.pl., sing. bacterium /-tear"ee euhm/. 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. [1905-10; < NL < Gk baktéria, pl. of BAKTÉRION; see BACTERIUM] |
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