Usually means: Microscopic, single-celled organisms, ubiquitous.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. bacteria: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bacteria: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bacteria: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bacteria: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bacteria: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bacteria, bacteria: Wordnik
  7. bacteria: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bacteria: Wiktionary
  9. bacteria: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bacteria: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bacteria: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bacteria: Dictionary.com
  13. bacteria: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bacteria: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bacteria (disambiguation), Bacteria: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bacteria: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bacteria: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bacteria: Rhymezone
  19. Bacteria: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bacteria: Free Dictionary
  21. bacteria: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. bacteria: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. bacteria: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bacteria: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  3. -bacteria: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bacteria: Encyclopedia

Medicine (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bacteria: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. Bacteria: Merck Manuals
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Bacteria: HIV/AIDS Glossary
  9. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  11. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  12. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  13. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  14. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  15. bacteria: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  16. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  17. bacteria: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  18. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  19. -bacteria, bacteria: Medical dictionary
  20. Bacteria: Drug Medical Dictionary
  21. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. bacteria: Evolution Glossary
  5. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bacteria: Urban Dictionary

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Bacteria: Beauty & Health Glossary
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
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  7. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)
  9. BACTERIA: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium.
noun:  (derogatory, slang) Lowlife, slob (could be treated as plural or singular).
noun:  (dated, medicine) An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.
noun:  (US, proscribed) Alternative form of bacterium. [(microbiology) A single-celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.]

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