Usually means: Bacteria forming filaments and spores.
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  1. actinomycete: Merriam-Webster
  2. actinomycete: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. actinomycete: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. actinomycete: Collins English Dictionary
  5. actinomycete: Vocabulary.com
  6. actinomycete: Wiktionary
  7. actinomycete: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. actinomycete: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. actinomycete: Dictionary.com
  10. Actinomycete: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. actinomycete: Rhymezone
  12. actinomycete: FreeDictionary.org
  13. actinomycete: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. actinomycete: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. actinomycete: Merriam-Webster

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  1. actinomycete: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. actinomycete: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. actinomycete: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (actinomycete)

noun:  Any of various filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria, of the order Actinomycetales, that resemble fungi. Some actinomycetes are pathogens and some are sources of antibiotics.

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