ubiquiter
English
Noun
ubiquiter (plural ubiquiters)
- (rare) A microorganism that can be found in most types of environment.
- 1985, Gerhard Rheinheimer, Aquatic Microbiology, page 185:
- Frequently they are widely distributed forms (ubiquiters) which require high concentrations of easily assimilable nutrients.
- (obsolete) A ubiquitarian.
- 1634-44, Aberdeen (Scotland). Town Council, Aberdeen Council Letters::
- Let me be aquent off your mynd heirin with the first for I can not be ane ubiquiter, and all is one to me quhither I be at hom or abrod, bot louk ye to the touns best and worst and I sal obay, bot as said is let me know in tym.
- 1844, William Maxwell Gunn (ed), Select works of Robert Rollock:
- If one go to Germany, he will be an Ubiquiter, and in Rome a Papist, in Scotland a Christian, — in as many places as many forms.
Adjective
ubiquiter (comparative more ubiquiter, superlative most ubiquiter)
- (nonstandard, rare) Ubiquitous, widespread.
- 1959, XVIth International Veterinary Congress, Madrid, 21-27 May, 1959:
- In the pigwashes prepared with well-waters of high nitrate-content —under certain conditions— the different ubiquiter, facultative anaerobe saprophyte soil-bacteria reduce the nitrate to nitrite in sufficient quantity to poison the animals.
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