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Definition of Aerobiotic
1. Adjective. Living or active only in the presence of oxygen. "Aerobiotic bacteria"
Definition of Aerobiotic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to aerobiosis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Aerobiotic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aerobiotic
Literary usage of Aerobiotic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Bacteria by Anton Bary, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1887)
"Oxygen may impede and even destroy vegetation even in the case of aerobiotic
forms if it takes place under high pressure. Bacillus Anthracis, for example, ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Weather Bureau (1905)
"... conditions define the microbe which secretes or fixes the nitrogen as an
aerobic organism (ie, one that feeds on the atmosphere or is aerobiotic). ..."
3. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"The absence of oxygen does not, however, prove immediately fatal to an aerobiotic
plant; it can live for a time without being supplied with free oxygen, ..."
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