1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Microorganism

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An organism of microscopic or submicroscopic size, especially a bacterium or protozoan.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Any microscopic form of life; a form of life too small to be seen by the naked eye; -- particularly applied to bacteria, protozoa, yeasts, and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A microscopic organism, as a bacillus, bacterium, or vibrio; a microbe; a microzoary.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. any organism of microscopic size

Word Usage

""This study gives a systems biology view of how a phenotype, or a 'network state' advantageous to a microorganism is comprised of a tiny subset of a much larger universe of possibilities as provided for in the genome," said Palsson."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

being organism

Cross Reference

macroorganism

Hyponym

intestinal flora moneran germ protistan bacterium

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

organism

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

BS bandeaux bacterium microorganisms microbe