Microbe

//ˈmaɪkɹəʊb//

Synonyms for "microbe" (87 found)

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Closest matches (18)

Noun(1 words)
bug

Strong matches (26)

Noun(1 words)
germ

Related words (43)

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Translations

90 translations across 70 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries
  • mikrobe noun (microorganism)

Albanian

1 entries
  • mikrob noun (microorganism)

Arabic

2 entries
  • جُرْثُوم noun (microorganism)
  • مِيكْرُوب noun (microorganism)

Armenian

2 entries
  • մանրէ noun (microorganism)
  • միկրոբ noun (microorganism)

Assamese

2 entries
  • অণুজীৱ noun (microorganism)
  • জীৱাণু noun (microorganism)

Asturian

1 entries
  • microbiu noun (microorganism)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • mikrob noun (microorganism)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • мікро́б noun (microorganism)

Bengali

1 entries
  • জীবাণু noun (microorganism)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • микро́б noun (microorganism)

Burmese

1 entries
  • ပိုး noun (microorganism)

Catalan

1 entries
  • microbi noun (microorganism)

Central Kurdish

1 entries
  • میکرۆب noun (microorganism)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 微生物 noun (microorganism)

Czech

1 entries
  • mikrob noun (microorganism)

Danish

1 entries
  • mikrobe noun (microorganism)

Dutch

1 entries
  • microbe noun (microorganism)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • mikrobo noun (microorganism)

Estonian

1 entries
  • mikroob noun (microorganism)

Finnish

1 entries
  • mikrobi noun (microorganism)

French

1 entries
  • microbe noun (microorganism)

Galician

1 entries
  • microbio noun (microorganism)

Georgian

1 entries
  • მიკრობი noun (microorganism)

German

1 entries
  • Mikrobe noun (microorganism)

Greek

2 entries
  • μικροοργανισμός noun (microorganism)
  • μικρόβιο noun (microorganism)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • חַידַק noun (microorganism)

Hindi

1 entries
  • सूक्ष्मजीव noun (microorganism)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • mikroba noun (microorganism)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • örvera noun (microorganism)

Ido

1 entries
  • mikrobo noun (microorganism)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • mikrob noun (microorganism)

Ingrian

1 entries
  • mikroba noun (microorganism)

Interlingua

1 entries
  • microbio noun (microorganism)

Irish

1 entries
  • miocrób noun (microorganism)

Italian

2 entries
  • microbio noun (microorganism)
  • microbo noun (microorganism)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 微生物 noun (microorganism)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • микроб noun (microorganism)

Khmer

4 entries
  • ក្រមី noun (microorganism)
  • ជីវាណូ noun (microorganism)
  • ពីជៈ noun (microorganism)
  • មីក្រុប noun (microorganism)

Korean

1 entries
  • 미생물 noun (microorganism)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • микроб noun (microorganism)

Lao

3 entries
  • ຈຸນລະຊີບ noun (microorganism)
  • ຈຸລິນທີ noun (microorganism)
  • ຈຸລິນສີ noun (microorganism)

Latvian

1 entries
  • mikrobs noun (microorganism)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • mikrobas noun (microorganism)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • микроб noun (microorganism)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • нян noun (microorganism)

Māori

1 entries
  • moroiti noun (microorganism)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries
  • mikrob noun (microorganism)
  • mîkrob noun (microorganism)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • mikrobe noun (microorganism)

Persian

1 entries
  • میکروب noun (microorganism)

Polish

4 entries
  • drobnoustrój noun (microorganism)
  • mikrob noun (microorganism)
  • mikroorganizm noun (microorganism)
  • zarazek noun (microorganism)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • micróbio noun (microorganism)

Romanian

1 entries
  • microb noun (microorganism)

Russian

1 entries
  • микро́б noun (microorganism)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • mìkrōb noun (microorganism)
  • мѝкро̄б noun (microorganism)

Slovak

1 entries
  • mikrób noun (microorganism)

Slovene

1 entries
  • mikrob noun (microorganism)

Spanish

1 entries
  • microbio noun (microorganism)

Swedish

1 entries
  • mikrob noun (microorganism)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • mikrobyo noun (microorganism)

Tajik

1 entries
  • микроб noun (microorganism)

Thai

2 entries
  • จุลชีพ noun (microorganism)
  • จุลินทรีย์ noun (microorganism)

Turkish

1 entries
  • mikrop noun (microorganism)

Turkmen

1 entries
  • mikrob noun (microorganism)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • мікро́б noun (microorganism)

Urdu

1 entries
  • جَرْثُومَہ noun (microorganism)

Uyghur

1 entries
  • مىكروپ noun (microorganism)

Uzbek

1 entries
  • mikrob noun (microorganism)

Vietnamese

3 entries
  • vi khuẩn noun (microorganism)
  • vi sinh vật noun (microorganism)
  • vi trùng noun (microorganism)

Volapük

1 entries
  • mikröb noun (microorganism)

Yiddish

1 entries
  • מיקראָב noun (microorganism)

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

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The man is also a stubborn microbe.

Source: tatoeba (6840672)

It can infect a person if they drink water or put something in their mouth that contains the microbe.

Source: tatoeba (10316685)

Could a microbe be elevated to microbiologist status by gene duplication followed by random mutations and natural selection?

Source: tatoeba (10569112)

Some of these cellular modifications also include changes to the membranes that envelop the microbe and protect it from its hostile environment.

Source: tatoeba (10876874)

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