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bacterialess

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Etymology

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From bacteria +‎ -less.

Adjective

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bacterialess (not comparable)

  1. without bacteria.
    • 1900, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, page 263:
      You may have it bacterialess through one filter and 50 or 100 coming away in another one side by side.
    • 1913, The Homœopathic Recorder, page 117:
      As 606 has been succeeded by 1001, or something to that effect, so have bacterial products been succeeded by bacterialess products known as "Phylacogens".
    • 1917, Henry Fairfield Osborn, The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and Interaction of Energy, London G. Bell, published 1918, page 80:
      A bacterialess earth and a bacterialess ocean would soon be uninhabitable either for plants or animals; conversely, it is probable that bacteria-like organisms prepared both the earth and the ocean for the further evolution of plants and animals, and that life passed through a very long bacterial stage.

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