Definition of micro-organism Micro-organism
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What does micro-organism mean?
WordNet
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| micro-organism - any organism of microscopic size | ||
| microorganism | ||
| being, organism the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" | ||
| animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna, creature a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | ||
| plant life, flora, plant (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | ||
| monad (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan) | ||
| intestinal flora harmless microorganisms (as Escherichia coli) that inhabit the intestinal tract and are essential for its normal functioning | ||
| virus (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein | ||
| moneran, moneron organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | ||
| bacteria, bacterium (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants | ||
| microbe, germ, bug a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use | ||
| pathogen any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism) | ||
| protoctist any of the unicellular protists | ||
| protist, protistan free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes | ||
| pilus hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism | ||
| microflora microscopic plants; bacteria are often considered to be microflora | ||
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Wiktionary 
- micro-organism (Noun)
Alternative spelling of microorganism.
