microbe
microbe
Definition
mi·crobe (mī′krōb′)
mi·cro′·bial adjective or mi·cro′·bic
microbe
Synonyms
microbe
Usage Examples
Converse of subject
- cause: He believes they were all caused by a microbe called Acinetobacter, first detected in the wounds of US servicemen in Vietnam.
Converse of object
- invade: Our immune system protects us from disease, destroying invading microbes with a swarm of attacking cells.
- destroy: He set out to find dyes that would destroy other infectious microbes within the body.
- kill: A short period under high light conditions will effectively kill the microbes.
- contain: Almost 90 % of American cows contain a cancer-causing microbe called bovine leukemia virus.
- call: You will often hear people call microbes - GERMS.
- use: Using microbes to produce enzymes for scientific use is an industry in its own right.
Preposition: in
- soil: Their raw material may be trees, plants, shrimps, butterflies, spiders, toads or microbes in soil.
- environment: The number of microbes in aquatic environments is immense.
Adjective modifier
- disease-causing: Probiotic bacteria modulate the immune system and provide an ecological balance in the gut that excludes disease-causing microbes.
- pathogenic: One of the major medical problems facing mankind is the resistance of many pathogenic microbes to existing antibiotics.
- aquatic: Aquatic microbes perform many more functions, some of which can be exploited in the biotechnology industry.
- harmful: These ' good ' organisms compete with and dominate the more harmful microbes.
- beneficial: Liquid feed can be drained off and is alive with with beneficial microbes.
- infectious: He set out to find dyes that would destroy other infectious microbes within the body.
Noun used with modifier
- rumen: But the ruminant is equipped with the rumen microbes to degrade and utilize such material for food production for humans.
- freshwater: To investigate the potential of marine and freshwater microbes for use in the biotechnology industry.
- gut: They found that gut microbes can open the ' ' gates ' ' fat uses to enter the body's fat cells.
- soil: They could grow better on contaminated land with help from soil microbes.
- traps: The dark film, known as desert varnish, traps microbes and other life forms in its sticky surface.
microbe Quotes
The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.
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