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Bacterium vs Bacteriophage - What's the difference?

bacterium | bacteriophage |

As nouns the difference between bacterium and bacteriophage

is that bacterium is (microbiology) a single celled organism with no nucleus while bacteriophage is bacteriophage.

As an adjective bacteriophage is

bacteriophagous.

bacterium

English

Noun

(bacteria)
  • (microbiology) A single celled organism with no nucleus.
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    Usage notes

    * In most formal writing, . This is usually considered incorrect.

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Hypernyms

    * prokaryote

    Derived terms

    * eubacterium * archaebacterium / archebacterium

    See also

    * bacillus English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    bacteriophage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (microbiology, virology) A virus that specifically infects bacteria.
  • Synonyms

    * phage

    See also

    * virophage