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Title micro-organism
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
mi·cro·or·gan·ism

 \\-ˈȯr-gə-ˌni-zəm\\ noun
 ETYMOLOGY  International Scientific Vocabulary
 DATE  1880
: an organism (as a bacterium or protozoan) of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size
English Etymology
microorganism
  1880, coined in Eng. from micro- + organism.
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7
micro-organism
micro-organ·ism 7maikrEu5C:^EnizEmNAmE 7maikrou5C:r^- / noun   (technical 术语) a very small living thing that you can only see under a 
microscope
 
   微生物
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
mi·cro·organism
\“+\ noun
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary micr- + organism
: an organism of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size — used especially of bacteria and protozoa
 < soil-inhabiting microorganisms — S.A.Waksman >
Synonyms: 
 
germ
microbe
bacterium
bacillus
virus
pathogen
microorganism
 is the general term for any organism of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size. 
germ
 and 
microbe
 are early nonscientific synonyms for microorganism. germ often refers to microorganisms regarded as a source or origin (as of a disease)
  < typhus germs >
  It is often used to indicate a rudimentary beginning or embryo capable of evolving or developing
  germs of the doctrine of which he is the founder may be traced to much earlier, even ancient periods — Encyc. Americana >
  
microbe
 may be somewhat more awesome than 
germ
 and is rarely used with pleasing suggestion
  < the late stage of true invasion of the tissues around the brain and spinal cord by the deadly microbes — F.G.Slaughter >
  
bacterium
 is now the common scientific designation for a large group of microscopic plants with single-celled or acellular bodies of various forms that affect the life of man in various ways. 
bacteria
 is sometimes used to designate rod-shaped bacteria that do not form endospores and is contrasted with 
bacillus
 in its narrow sense. 
bacillus
 in science refers to any straight rod-shaped bacterium or to any straight aerobic rod-shaped bacterium that forms endospores; popularly it refers to various disease-causing bacteria
  < the bacilli of diphtheria >
  
virus
 technically indicates a submicroscopic infective agent sometimes considered as composed of complex protein molecules capable of growth in living cells
  < polio virus >
  
virus
 is applicable to any dread, insidious, inexorable agent
  < right in claiming that the virus of Pan-Germanism and Nazism was present in the speeches — Times Literary Supplement >
  
pathogen
 is applicable to any living agent that causes disease (as a bacterium, virus, fungus, or worm); it stresses this aspect and implies nothing about relative size, being freely applied to agencies that are not microorganisms
  < many pathogens attack a vigorous host most readily — Science>

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