bacterial en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- [bækˈtɪəɹiəɫ]
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek βακτηρία (baktēría) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion) Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor. New Latin bactēriabor. English bacteria English -al English bacterial From bacteria + -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of, relating to, or caused by bacteria.
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023:
Deriveds
janthinobacterial · bacterial flora · arthrobacterial · myobacterial · zetaproteobacterial · interbacterial · brevibacterial · heliobacterial · bacterial wetwood · corynebacterial · propionibacterial · enterobacterial · halobacterial · actinobacterial · protobacterial · eubacterial · bifibacterial · abacterial · bacterialization · magnetobacterial · peribacterial · arcobacterial · archaebacterial · multibacterial · betaproteobacterial · bacterially · rhizobacterial · cyanobacterial · bifidobacterial · fusobacterial · gammaproteobacterial · panbacterial · paucibacterial · azotobacterial · microbacterial · subbacterial · poribacterial · monobacterial · antibacterial · acidobacterial · proteobacterial · coccobacterial · campylobacterial · endobacterial · ultramicrobacterial · deltaproteobacterial · bacterial meningitis · nitrobacterial · polybacterial · extrabacterial · myxobacterial · megabacterial · roseobacterial · curvibacterial · agrobacterial · phytobacterial · flavobacterial · intrabacterial · mycobacterial · nanobacterial · sphingobacterial · alphaproteobacterial · nonbacterial · photobacterial · epibacterial
Relateds
Translations (30)
fi bakteeri- (of or caused by bacteria) · ca bacterial (of or caused by bacteria) · af bakterieel (of or caused by bacteria) · hi जीवाण्विक (of or caused by bacteria) · pl bakteryjny (of or caused by bacteria) · ru бактериа́льный (of or caused by bacteria) · cs bakteriální (of or caused by bacteria) · de bakteriell (of or caused by bacteria) · nl bacterieel (of or caused by bacteria) · nb bakteriell (of or caused by bacteria) · es bacteriano (of or caused by bacteria) · ca bacterià (of or caused by bacteria) · es bacterial (of or caused by bacteria) · io bakteriala (of or caused by bacteria) · eo bakteria (of or caused by bacteria) · it batterico (of or caused by bacteria) · nn bakteriell (of or caused by bacteria) · fi bakteriaalinen (of or caused by bacteria) · ga baictéarach (of or caused by bacteria) · hu bakteriális (of or caused by bacteria) · bg бактериален (of or caused by bacteria) · gl bacteriano (of or caused by bacteria) · fi bakteeriperäinen (of or caused by bacteria) · da bakteriel (of or caused by bacteria) · sv bakteriell (of or caused by bacteria) · uk бактеріа́льний (of or caused by bacteria) · fr bactérien (of or caused by bacteria) · cmn 微生物的 (of or caused by bacteria) · be бактэрыя́льны (of or caused by bacteria) · ast bacterianu (of or caused by bacteria)