microbion
Noun
A microbe.
Usage- Archaic
- Examples
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I am very well aware that lately mention has been made of particular microbions.
More examples (1)
M. Pasteur was announced as prepared not only to expound his previously published investigations concerning the modification and protective inoculation of disease-poisons, but to disclose new examples of modification of such points by the oxygen of the air, and to prove that we have really reached a general method for the moddification of certain poisons, whose application has only to be varied according to the physiological characteristics of the various microbions.
Word forms
microbions