Usually means: Symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria cluster.
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  1. bacteroid: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bacteroid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bacteroid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bacteroid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bacteroid: Vocabulary.com
  6. bacteroid: Wordnik
  7. bacteroid: Wiktionary
  8. bacteroid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bacteroid: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Bacteroid, bacteroid: Dictionary.com
  11. Bacteroid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Bacteroid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. bacteroid: Rhymezone
  14. Bacteroid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. bacteroid: Free Dictionary
  16. bacteroid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. bacteroid: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. bacteroid: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. bacteroid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. bacteroid: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bacteroid)

noun:  (dated) A micro-organism such as a bacterium or yeast.
noun:  A bacterium of the species Bacteroides.
noun:  A symbiotic form of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Rhizobia, or the root nodule that it produces.
adjective:  (biology) Resembling bacteria.

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