English noun: micro-organism |
1. | micro-organism (animal) any organism of microscopic size |
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| Synonyms | microorganism |
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| Broader (hypernym) | being, organism |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bacteria, bacterium, bug, germ, intestinal flora, microbe, microflora, monad, moneran, moneron, pathogen, protist, protistan, protoctist, virus |
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| Part holonym | pilus |
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| Domain category | animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna, flora, plant, plant life |
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| Domain category members | bacteremia, bacteriaemia, bacteriemia, highly infective, immotile, motile, nonmotile, transmitter, vector, virulence, virulency |
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