bacteriophage

See also: bactériophage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bactériophage, coined by microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle, from bacterio- (“bacteria”) +‎ -phage (“eater”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪəʊˌfeɪdʒ/
• enPR: bâk'tîr'ē'ə'fāj
• Hyphenation: bac‧ter‧i‧o‧phage

Noun

bacteriophage (plural bacteriophages)

1. (microbiology, virology) A virus that specifically infects bacteria.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 54:

     Another possibility is to enlist a bacteriophage, a kind of virus, to hunt down and kill harmful bacteria for us.

Synonyms

• phage

Derived terms

• bacteriophagic
• bacteriophagous
• bacteriophagy
• corynebacteriophage
• cyanobacteriophage
• enterobacteriophage
• mycobacteriophage

 

Translations

a virus that infects bacteria

• Basque: bakteriofago
• Catalan: bacteriòfag m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 噬菌體 (zh), 噬菌体 (zh) (shìjūntǐ, shìjùntǐ)

• Czech: bakteriofág (cs) m
• Danish: bakteriofag (da) c
• Finnish: bakteriofagi (fi)
• French: bactériophage (fr) m
• German: Bakteriophage (de) f
• Greek: βακτηριοφάγος (el) m (vaktiriofágos), φάγος m (fágos)

• Hungarian: bakteriofág
• Icelandic: bakteríuveira f, faga f, gerilveira f, gerilæta f
• Irish: baictéarafagach m
• Latvian: bakteriofāgs (lv) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bakteriofag m

  Nynorsk: bakteriofag m

• Portuguese: bacteriófago (pt) m
• Spanish: bacteriófago (es)

See also

• virophage