English dictionary

bacteroid

/'b/&/kt/@/,r//Oi//d/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

resembling bacteria

adj.pert

Synonyms bacterioid bacterioidal bacteroidal

Source: WordNet 3.0
Resembling bacteria; as, <i>bacteroid</i> particles.

adjective

Source: webster1913

a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)

noun.animal

Source: WordNet 3.0