microbial

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/maɪˈkɹəʊ.bi.əl/    /maɪˈkɹoʊ.bi.əl/|/mɑɪˈkɹəʉ.bi.əl/|/mɑɪˈkɹɐʉ.bi.əl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A microbe or bacterium.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, relating to, or caused by microbes or microorganisms. not-comparable
    — The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.
  2. Small; tiny; minuscule. not-comparable
    — As I say, one must not blame the Christians too much for all this - partly because, after the communal periods which I have just mentioned, Christianity was evidently deeply influenced by the rise of Commercialism to which during the last two centuries it has so carefully and piously adapted itself; and partly because - if our view is anywhere near right - this microbial injection of self-consciousness was just the necessary work which (in conjunction with commercialism) it had to perform.

词形变化

microbials plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English microbe
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English microbial
From microbe + -ial.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English microbe
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English microbial
From microbe + -ial.
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