Containing, producing, or relating to bacteria.
From Latin 'bakterion' (rod) + -ous (adjective suffix). An older, less common scientific term from the 1800s that has mostly been replaced by 'bacterial.'
This word is practically extinct in modern science—'bacterial' took over—but it's a linguistic fossil showing how scientists once used Latin endings to describe microscopic discoveries they barely understood!
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