Usually means: Microscopic, single-celled organisms, ubiquitous.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. bacteria: Merriam-Webster
  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: FreeDictionary.org
  21. bacteria: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. bacteria: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. bacteria: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. bacteria: Merriam-Webster

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)
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  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bacteria: Encyclopedia

Medicine (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. bacteria: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bacteria: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  7. Bacteria: Merck Manuals
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Bacteria: HIV/AIDS Glossary
  10. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  12. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
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  15. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  16. bacteria: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  17. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  18. bacteria: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  19. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  20. -bacteria, bacteria: Medical dictionary
  21. Bacteria: Drug Medical Dictionary
  22. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. bacteria: Evolution Glossary
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bacteria: Urban Dictionary

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Bacteria: Beauty & Health Glossary
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  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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