All microorganism synonyms
mi·cro·or·gan·ism
M m noun microorganism
- germ — a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- microbe — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- virus — an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope.
- parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
- disease — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.