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Definition of Bacterioid
1. Adjective. Resembling bacteria.
Partainyms: Bacteria, Bacteria, Bacteria, Bacteria
Derivative terms: Bacterium, Bacteroid, Bacteroid
Definition of Bacterioid
1. Adjective. (rare) Resembling a bacterium ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Bacterioid
1. Something which looks like a bacterium. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacterioid
Literary usage of Bacterioid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1899)
"The apparent mycelium is what is known as a bacterioid condition ; the bacteria
... The mycelium, or bacterioid condition, is the transition stage from the ..."
2. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science, Kansas Academy of Science Meeting (1899)
"The apparent mycelium is what is known as a bacterioid condition ; the bacteria
... The mycelium, or bacterioid condition, is the transition stage from the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"According to Zopf this species passes successively through the stages known
as "coccus," " bacterioid," " bacillar," and " leptothrix," by mer* elongation ..."
4. Transactions by Epidemiological Society of London, Royal Historical Society (London), Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett (1884)
"... under the microscope the character of pond-water rather than of a running
stream, and to contain bacterioid organisms in considerable quantities. ..."
5. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"In the cells of the latter the penetrating filaments bud off the bacterioid bodies
in great numbers. The stimulus resulting from the invasion causes a ..."
6. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1877)
"The cause of this singular phenomenon is referred to bacterioid masses which
cling to Zostera and seaweeds, and, as might be expected, lose their hold when ..."
7. Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London by Epidemiological Society of London (1884)
"... and to contain bacterioid organisms in considerable quantities. For a detailed
description, chemical and microscopic, of the character of the water at ..."
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