Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bacteroid

1 sense of bacteroid

Sense 1
bacteroid -- (a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants))
       => bacteria, bacterium -- ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants)

Similarity of adj bacteroid

1 sense of bacteroid

Sense 1
bacteroidal, bacteroid, bacterioidal, bacterioid -- (resembling bacteria)