Meanings
plural microbiologists
- A biologist whose speciality is microbiology.
No, because we obsessively clean it (or use paper coverings at work), said microbiologist Charles Gerba, a professor of public health, environmental science and immunology at the University of Arizona.
2019 October 7, Sandee LaMotte, “The germiest place in your home and the best way to combat those microbes”, in CNN1 more example
On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.
2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*mey-der.?
- Ancient Greekμῑκρός (mīkrós)
- Ancient Greekμῑκρο- (mīkro-)
- Englishmicro-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
- Ancient Greekβίος (bíos)
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
- Proto-Hellenic*lógos
- Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
- New Latinbiologia
- Englishbiology
- Englishbiologist
- Englishmicrobiologist
Translations
Catalan microbiòleg, microbiòloga
- microbiòlegscientist specializing in microbiology
- microbiòlogascientist specializing in microbiology
Chinese Mandarin 微生物學家 /微生物学家
- 微生物學家 /微生物学家 (wéishēngwù xuéjiā)scientist specializing in microbiology
Czech mikrobiolog
- mikrobiologscientist specializing in microbiology
Danish mikrobiolog
- mikrobiologscientist specializing in microbiology
Dutch microbioloog, microbiologe
- microbioloogscientist specializing in microbiology
- microbiologescientist specializing in microbiology
Estonian mikrobioloog
- mikrobioloogscientist specializing in microbiology
Finnish mikrobiologi
- mikrobiologiscientist specializing in microbiology
French microbiologiste
- microbiologistescientist specializing in microbiology
German Mikrobiologe, Mikrobiologin
- Mikrobiologescientist specializing in microbiology
- Mikrobiologinscientist specializing in microbiology
Greek μικροβιολόγος
- μικροβιολόγος (mikroviológos)scientist specializing in microbiology
Italian microbiologo, microbiologa
- microbiologoscientist specializing in microbiology
- microbiologascientist specializing in microbiology
Japanese 微生物学者
- 微生物学者 (biseibutsu gakusha)scientist specializing in microbiology
Norwegian Bokmål mikrobiolog
- mikrobiologscientist specializing in microbiology
Portuguese microbiólogo, microbióloga
- microbiólogoscientist specializing in microbiology
- microbiólogascientist specializing in microbiology
Romanian microbiolog, microbiologist
- microbiologscientist specializing in microbiology
- microbiologistscientist specializing in microbiology
Russian микробио́лог
- микробио́лог (mikrobiólog)scientist specializing in microbiology
Spanish microbiólogo, microbióloga
- microbiólogoscientist specializing in microbiology
- microbiólogascientist specializing in microbiology
Swedish mikrobiolog
- mikrobiologscientist specializing in microbiology
Cite this entry
microbiologist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microbiologist
“microbiologist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microbiologist. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “microbiologist,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microbiologist.
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