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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bacteroid \Bac"te*roid\, Bacteroidal \Bac`te*roid"al\, a.
     [Bacterium + -oid.] (Biol.)
     Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  bacteroid
       adj : resembling bacteria [syn: {bacteroidal}, {bacterioidal}, {bacterioid}]
       n : a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or
           branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing
           plants)

















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