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microorganism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun microorganism has 1 sense
- microorganism(n = noun.animal) micro-organism - any organism of microscopic size; Array is a kind of being, organism
has particulars: monad, intestinal flora, virus, moneran, moneron, bacteria, bacterium, bug, germ, microbe, pathogen, protoctist, protist, protistan, microflora
has parts: pilus
THESAURUS
microorganism
Euglena, adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, aerobic organism, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, anaerobic organism, animalcule, autotrophic organism, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, being, bug, coccus, colon bacillus, creature, crumb, diatom, disease-producing microorganism, dot, drop, droplet, dyad, echovirus, enterovirus, filterable virus, flagellate, fleck, flyspeck, fungus, genetic individual, germ, gnat, grain, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, heterotrophic organism, individual, iota, jot, living being, living thing, microbe, microspore, microzoa, midge, minim, minutia, minutiae, mite, mold, monad, morphological individual, mote, nematode, nonfilterable virus, ont, organic being, organism, organization, paramecium, particle, pathogen, physiological individual, picornavirus, pinhead, pinpoint, point, protozoa, protozoon, reovirus, rhinovirus, rickettsia, salmonella, saprophyte, scrap, snip, snippet, speck, spirillum, spirochete, spore, sporozoon, staphylococcus, streptococcus, tetrad, tittle, triad, trypanosome, vanishing point, vibrio, virus, volvox, vorticellum, zooid, zoon, zoospore
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