(thing) by BioTech Wed Jun 05 2002 at 2:23:54

  1. Resembles a bacterium.
  2. A particular group of small, gram-negative, anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria.
  3. A cell which was modified from a bacteria that has become an endosymbiont within other organisms, like plants or marine animals.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:01:39

Bac"te*roid (?), Bac`te*roid"al (?), a. [Bacterium + -oid.] Biol.

Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.

 

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