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part of speech:	noun
inflections:	bacteria
definition:	any of a large group of one-celled microscopic organisms of various shapes that are often agents of fermentation and putrefaction and that may cause disease. similar words: microbe
related words:	bug, germ
derivations:	bacterial (adj.), bacterially (adv.)

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