bacteroid (adj.)

  1. resembling bacteria

    [ Syn: bacteroidal , bacterioidal , bacterioid ]

    bacteroid (n.)

  1. a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)

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