microbe

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmaɪkɹəʊb/    美 /ˈmaɪkɹoʊb/|/ˈmɑɪkɹəʉb/|/ˈmɑɪkɹɐʉb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any microorganism; (loosely, nonscientifically) especially, a harmful bacterium.
    — We humans and other complex animals are full of microbes, gajillions of them. People have so many that microbe cells living in our bodies outnumber our own vastly.

词形变化

microbes plural

词源

Borrowed from French microbe, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) and βίος (bíos, “life”). By surface analysis, micro- + -obe.
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