bacterial

English

Etymology

bacteria +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bækˈtɪəɹiəɫ]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

bacterial (not comparable)

1. (microbiology) Of, relating to, or caused by bacteria.
   • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].

Derived terms

• abacterial
• acidobacterial
• actinobacterial
• agrobacterial
• alphaproteobacterial
• antibacterial
• archaebacterial
• arcobacterial
• arthrobacterial
• azotobacterial
• bacterial flora
• bacterialization
• bacterially
• bacterial meningitis
• bacterial wetwood
• betaproteobacterial
• bifibacterial
• bifidobacterial
• brevibacterial
• campylobacterial
• coccobacterial
• corynebacterial
• curvibacterial
• cyanobacterial
• deltaproteobacterial
• endobacterial
• enterobacterial
• epibacterial
• eubacterial
• extrabacterial
• flavobacterial
• fusobacterial
• gammaproteobacterial
• halobacterial
• heliobacterial
• interbacterial
• intrabacterial
• janthinobacterial
• magnetobacterial
• megabacterial
• microbacterial
• monobacterial
• multibacterial
• mycobacterial
• myobacterial
• myxobacterial
• nanobacterial
• nitrobacterial
• nonbacterial
• panbacterial
• paucibacterial
• peribacterial
• photobacterial
• phytobacterial
• polybacterial
• poribacterial
• propionibacterial
• proteobacterial
• protobacterial
• rhizobacterial
• roseobacterial
• sphingobacterial
• subbacterial
• ultramicrobacterial
• zetaproteobacterial

 

Related terms

• bacterio-

Translations

of or caused by bacteria

• Afrikaans: bakterieel
• Asturian: bacterianu
• Belarusian: бактэрыя́льны (bakteryjálʹny)
• Bulgarian: бактериален (bakterialen)
• Catalan: bacterià (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微生物的 (Wéishēngwù de)

• Czech: bakteriální (cs)
• Danish: bakteriel
• Dutch: bacterieel (nl)
• Esperanto: bakteria
• Finnish: bakteeri- (fi) (of); bakteriaalinen, bakteeriperäinen (caused by)
• French: bactérien (fr)
• Galician: bacteriano
• German: bakteriell (de)
• Hungarian: bakteriális (hu)
• Ido: bakteriala (io)
• Irish: baictéarach
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bakteriell

  Nynorsk: bakteriell

• Polish: bakteryjny (pl)
• Russian: бактериа́льный (ru) (bakteriálʹnyj)
• Spanish: bacteriano (es), bacterial
• Swedish: bakteriell (sv)
• Ukrainian: бактеріа́льний (uk) (bakteriálʹnyj)

Anagrams

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Spanish

Etymology

From bacteria +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɡteˈɾjal/ [baɣ̞.t̪eˈɾjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: bac‧te‧rial

Adjective

bacterial m or f (masculine and feminine plural bacteriales)

1. bacterial

   Synonym: bacteriano

Derived terms

• antibacterial