The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word GERM , but the solution may also be MICROBE which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in Wall Street Journal).
Bacterium crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| GERM | 72 % | 4 |
| MICROBE | 17 % | 7 |
| AEROBE | 11 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Bacterium
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- microbe
- bacterial
- bacteriological
- organism
- blight
- disease
- germ
- stick
- bug
- peg
- isolate
- denitrifying
Crossword Answer definitions
GERM noun- The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
- A pathogenic microorganism.
- The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
- The origin of an idea or project.
- An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
- To germinate.
- To grow, as if parasitic.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result GERM
- Kind of warfare
- Minute organism
- Idea's beginning
- Microbe
- Cold start?
- Sanitizer's target
- Start of an idea
- Start of something big
- Starting point
- What's going around
More clues leading to the result MICROBE
- Germ
- It can be dropped or rocked (or ... a germ)
- Tiny organism
- Streptococcus or staphylococcus
- Bio lab organism
- Minuscule life form
- Disease cause
- Germ.
- Laboratory phenomenon.
- A bacterium.