microbe
noun
a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
microbes
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pluralof microbe.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The discovery points to a previously unrecognized pathway through which carbon stored by microbes can move into animal food webs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
The second showed that several biologically important metabolites usually credited to gut microbes can also be produced in substantial amounts by mammalian metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
The researchers wanted to determine how effectively bacteria could reduce the amount of uranium dissolved in water and identify the chemical forms created as the microbes processed the uranium.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
He said it could also add to interest in protecting maerl beds, which were "already of the greatest importance to all of the other plants, animals and microbes in the ecological community that they support".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
It was that warmer temperatures all around the world were melting the permafrost in the Arctic, and tiny microbes were feasting on the newly unfrozen plant material in the ground.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
