Aerobe Definition

ârōb

noun

A microorganism that can live and grow only where free oxygen is present.

Webster's New World

An organism, such as a bacterium, requiring free oxygen to live.

American Heritage Medicine

(biology) Any organism (but especially a bacterium) that can tolerate the presence of oxygen, or that needs oxygen to survive.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Aerobe

Singular:

aerobe

Plural:

aerobes

French aérobie Greek āēr air aero– Greek bios life gwei- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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