‖ mycetes, n. pl. Biol.
(maɪˈsiːtiːz)
[mod.L., ad. Gr. µύκητες, pl. of µύκης mushroom, fungus.]
The group of minute vegetable organisms commonly known as microbes. Hence myˈcetic a.
| 1876 tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. I. 254 If..the mycetic germ of a pestilence is supplanted..by a pathogenetic protomyces. Ibid. 399 A very strong proof of the possible dissemination of cholera mycetes by the air. 1896 Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 504 Others have singled out the schizomycetes as mycetes or microbes. |