Microbe

∞ generated and posted on 2022.01.23 ∞

Short for microorganism.

The term Microbe can often by found in both informal as well as formal writing as a synonym for microorganism.

According to Dictionary.com, the term microbe can be used to refer specifically to pathogenic bacteria.

I wonder who owns microbe.com, microbe.org, and microbe.net. ☺