bacteroid

Definitions of bacteroid
  1. adjective
    resembling bacteria
    synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroidal
  2. noun
    a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)
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    type of:
    bacteria, bacterium
    (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants
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