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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ac•tin•o•my•cete (ak tin′ō mī′sēt, -mī sēt′, ak′tə nō-),USA pronunciation n. [Bacteriol.]- Microbiologyany of several rod-shaped or filamentous, aerobic or anaerobic bacteria of the phylum Chlamydobacteriae, or in some classification schemes, the order Actinomycetales, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and animals.
- 1915–20; probably through construal of Neo-Latin Actinomycetes (plural of actinomyces) as an English plural noun, nominal; see -mycete
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