Meaning

1 senses
  1. An organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye; especially, a single-celled organism, such as a bacterium.

    The cud is then reswallowed by the ruminant and further digested by specialized microorganisms that live in the rumen.

    Mikroorganismus

    микрооргани́змmikroorganízm

    мікрооргані́змmikroorhanízm

More definitions
  • any organism of microscopic size

Examples

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  1. Antibiotics fight the development of microorganisms.

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  2. The alien microorganisms continued their mitosis.

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  3. Tom succeeded in culturing the new microorganism.

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  4. The microorganisms have evolved into large insects.

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  5. Can microorganisms evolve in a closed system?

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Translations

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an organism too small to be seen by unaided eye:
Русский
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an organism too small to be seen by unaided eye:
Deutsch
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an organism too small to be seen by unaided eye:

Forms

plural: microorganisms

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

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