bacteroides

[ bak-tuh-roi-deez ]

noun,plural bac·te·roi·des.
  1. any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.

Origin of bacteroides

1
First recorded in 1920–25; from New Latin; see origin at bacteri-, -oid

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