Thesaurus:bacterium

Thesaurus

bacterium

English

Noun

Sense: single celled organism with no nucleus or organelles

Synonyms

• bacterium

Hyponyms

• bacillus
• lactobacillus
• ascococcus
• cryptococcus
• cytococcus
• diplococcus
• echinococcus
• enterococcus
• gonococcus
• meningococcus
• micrococcus
• ovococcus
• pneumococcus
• protococcus
• spermococcus
• spirochete
• staphylococcus
• streptococcus

Hypernyms

• microorganism    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• -coccus

Further reading

• “bacterium” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.