Microbes
['maɪkrob]
Examples
- In a little while the microbes begin to develop and increase, forming colonies, in which they swarm by the million, and present the clotted appearance seen in Fig. 178. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Koch, whose success in detecting the microbes which cause consumption and cholera has made him famous the world over. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Pasteur thought that in places where sheep dead of anthrax had been buried, the microbes were brought to t he surface in the castings of earthworms. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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