bacteroid
bac·te·roid
adjective
1.
resembling bacteria
noun
1.
a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)
Origin
From bacterium + -oid.
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