Bactria vs Bacterium - What's the difference?
bactria | bacterium |
As a proper noun bactria is ( greek name for ancient country). As a noun bacterium is (microbiology) a single celled organism with no nucleus.
bactria Alternative forms
* Bactriana, B?khtar in Persian, also Bhalika in Indian languages, and Ta-Hia in Chinese.
Proper noun
( en proper noun)
The ancient Greek name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya in the Middle East, encompassing parts of northern Afghanistan, eastern Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and northern Pakistan.
Anagrams
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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
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