Anaerobe Definition

ănə-rōb, ăn-ârōb

noun

A microorganism that can live and grow where there is no free oxygen: it may not be able to grow if any oxygen is present.

Webster's New World

An organism, such as a bacterium, that can live in the absence of free oxygen.

American Heritage Medicine

An anaerobic organism; one that does not require oxygen to sustain its metabolic processes.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Anaerobe

Singular:

anaerobe

Plural:

anaerobes

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