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microorganism definition

micro·organ·ism (-ôr′gə niz′əm)

noun

any microscopic or ultramicroscopic animal, plant, bacterium, virus, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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