microbial
adjective/maɪˈkroʊbiəl/
Frequency rank: #9,282 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
relating to or caused by microbes (extremely small living organisms).
Example sentence
The scientists studied microbial growth in the contaminated water samples.
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