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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /maɪˈkɹəʊ.bi.əl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /maɪˈkɹoʊ.bi.əl/
• (Canada) IPA: /maɪˈkɹoʊ.bi.əl/, [mʌɪˈkɹoʊ.bi.əl]
• (General Australian) IPA: /mɑɪˈkɹəʉ.bi.əl/, /mɑɪˈkɹɐʉ.bi.əl/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /maɪˈkɹɐʉ.bi.əl/

形容詞

microbial (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or caused by microbes or microorganisms.
   • 1991, Lynn Margulis, René Fester, Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation:

     The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.

   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.

2. Small; tiny; minuscule.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 191:

     As I say, one must not blame the Christians too much for all this - partly because, after the communal periods which I have just mentioned, Christianity was evidently deeply influenced by the rise of Commercialism to which during the last two centuries it has so carefully and piously adapted itself; and partly because - if our view is anywhere near right - this microbial injection of self-consciousness was just the necessary work which (in conjunction with commercialism) it had to perform.

派生語

名詞

microbial (plural microbials)

1. A microbe or bacterium.

アナグラム

• mirabolic