Synonyms for microbial
mi·cro·bial

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1. microbial, microbicadjective

   of or involving or caused by or being microbes

   "microbial warfare"

   Synonyms:
   microbic

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1. List of paraphrases for "microbial":

   microbiological, microorganisms, micro-organisms, bacterial

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1. Elizabeth Turner:

   I serendipitously came across a few very rare examples of the material during my unrelated PhD research, long ago, on fossil microbial reefs, when I became a professor and had my own grants, I was able to return to the field sites and collect more material so that I had a more robust collection to work from.

2. Jeremy Nicholson:

   In obese individuals you get different microbial compositions to produce something that can impact cancer.

3. Dr Schulze-Makuch:

   In the past, researchers have found dying organisms near the surface and remnants of DNA but this is really the first time that anyone has been able to identify a persistent form of life living in the soil of the Atacama Desert, we believe these microbial communities can lay dormant for hundreds or even thousands of years in conditions very similar to what you would find on a planet like Mars and then come back to life when it rains.

4. Professor House:

   We envisioned and tested the concept of simultaneously treating astronauts’ waste with microbes while producing a biomass that is edible either directly or indirectly, depending on safety concerns, it’s a little strange, but the concept would be a little bit like Marmite or Vegemite, where you’re eating a smear of ‘microbial goo’.

5. William Rapin:

   We went to Gale Crater because Gale Crater preserves this unique record of a changing Mars, understanding when and how the planet's climate started evolving is a piece of another puzzle : When and how long was Mars capable of supporting microbial life at the surface ?