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A virus that specifically infects bacteria.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, microbiology, natural-sciences, virology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: phage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: virus
Narrower terms: coliphage, typhoid bacteriophage
Borrowed from French bactériophage, coined by microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle, from bacterio- (“bacteria”) + -phage (“eater”).
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Basque:
bakteriofago
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Catalan:
bacteriòfag
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Chinese Mandarin:
噬菌體 /噬菌体
(shìjūntǐ, shìjùntǐ)
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Czech:
bakteriofág
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Danish:
bakteriofag
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Finnish:
bakteriofagi
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Finnish:
faagi
— a virus that infects bacteria
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French:
bactériophage
— a virus that infects bacteria
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German:
Bakteriophage
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Greek:
βακτηριοφάγος
(vaktiriofágos)
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Greek:
φάγος
(fágos)
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Hindi:
जीवाणुभोजी
(jīvāṇubhojī)
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Hungarian:
bakteriofág
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Icelandic:
bakteríuveira
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Icelandic:
faga
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Icelandic:
gerilveira
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Icelandic:
gerilæta
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Indonesian:
bakteriofag
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Irish:
baictéarafagach
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Japanese:
バクテリオファージ
(bakuteriofuāji)
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Kazakh:
бактериофаг
(bakteriofag)
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Korean:
박테리오파지
(bakteriopaji)
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Latin:
bacteriophagum
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Latvian:
bakteriofāgs
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Malay:
bakteriofaj
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Norwegian Bokmål:
bakteriofag
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
bakteriofag
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Polish:
bakteriofag
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Portuguese:
bacteriófago
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Spanish:
bacteriófago
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Turkish:
bakteriyofaj
— a virus that infects bacteria
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Vietnamese:
thực khuẩn thể
— a virus that infects bacteria
