Peage vs Phage - What's the difference?
peage | phage |
(microbiology, virology) A virus that is parasitic on bacteria.
As nouns the difference between peage and phage
is that peage is archaic: toll for passage while phage is a virus that is parasitic on bacteria.phage
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(en-noun)Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann:Phage or phages. Bacteriophage Ecology Group (BEG) News, vol 14, 2002-10-01"The plural word phages' refers to different types of phage, whereas in common usage the word ' phage can be both singular and plural, referring in the plural sense to particles of the same type of phage." Maloy et al: Microbial Genetics, 2nd ed., 1984, ISBN 9780867202489, p. 81