basilEnglish

basil, germ, B, Basil, Basil of Caesarea

Less common #19,414 of the corpus · 2.2 per million words · 9,583 occurrences

Noun

(Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century, a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379)

English: Basil, St. Basil, Basil of Caesarea, Basil the Great, St. Basil the Great

Bahasa: basilika, Basil, Basilius Agung, St. Basil

Any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum

English: basil

Bahasa: kemangi, selasih, ruku-ruku

Leaves of the common basil, used fresh or dried

English: basil, sweet basil

3 more noun senses

Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium, often occurring in chainlike formations, found primarily in soil

English: bacillus, B

Bahasa: kuman, basilus

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A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium), the term is not in technical use

English: microbe, bug, germ

Bahasa: bakteri, kutu, kuman, mikroba, mikrob, kutu busuk

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A small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

English: germ

Bahasa: benih, bibit, kuman

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