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ubiquiter en · ADJ
Etymology
From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -er.
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(nonstandard, rare) Ubiquitous, widespread.
In the pigwashes prepared with well-waters of high nitrate-content —under certain conditions— the different ubiquiter, facultative anaerobe saprophyte soil-bacteria reduce the nitrate to nitrite in sufficient quantity to poison the animals.
1959, XVIth International Veterinary Congress, Madrid, 21-27 May, 1959:
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ubiquiter en · NOUN
Etymology
From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -er.
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(rare) A microorganism that can be found in most types of environment.
Frequently they are widely distributed forms (ubiquiters) which require high concentrations of easily assimilable nutrients.
1985, Gerhard Rheinheimer, Aquatic Microbiology, page 185:
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(obsolete) A ubiquitarian.
If one go to Germany, he will be an Ubiquiter, and in Rome a Papist, in Scotland a Christian, — in as many places as many forms.
1844, William Maxwell Gunn (ed), Select works of Robert Rollock:Let me be aquent off your mynd heirin with the first for I can not be ane ubiquiter, and all is one to me quhither I be at hom or abrod, bot louk ye to the touns best and worst and I sal obay, bot as said is let me know in tym.
1634-44, Aberdeen (Scotland). Town Council, Aberdeen Council Letters::
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