microflora

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noun

Microscopic life, especially the bacterial colonies found in the gut of normal, healthy animals and humans.

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Meanings

nounmicroflora (plural microflorae)

plural microflorae

  1. Microscopic life, especially the bacterial colonies found in the gut of normal, healthy animals and humans.

    Deionized water was also used to avoid the influence of naturally presented microflora in tap water on the experiment.

    2024 October 10, Tiana Milović et al., “Enhancing Compressive Strength of Cement by Indigenous Individual and Co-Culture Bacillus Bacteria”, in Materials, volume 17, number 20, →DOI, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2025

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-der.?
  2. Ancient Greekμῑκρός (mīkrós)
  3. Ancient Greekμῑκρο- (mīkro-)
  4. Englishmicro-
  5. Englishflora
  6. Englishmicroflora

From micro- + flora.

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Translations

Bulgarian микрофло́ра
  • микрофло́ра (mikroflóra)microscopic plant life
Chinese Mandarin 微植物群
  • 微植物群 (wēizhíwùqún)microscopic plant life
French microflore
  • microfloremicroscopic plant life
German Mikroflora
  • Mikrofloramicroscopic plant life
Polish mikroflora
  • mikrofloramicroscopic plant life
Romanian microfloră
  • microflorămicroscopic plant life
Russian микрофло́ра
  • микрофло́ра (mikroflóra)microscopic plant life

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APA

microflora. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microflora

MLA

“microflora.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microflora. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “microflora,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microflora.

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