Illustration: In a Japanese school science room, a student peers into a microscope while a connected monitor shows a magnified field of small rod-shaped bacteria. Several cells occur in pairs, and one has a clear narrowing at its middle as it divides.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

菌きん

kin

germ, bacterium

It can also mean a fungus. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. その食品しょくひんの中なかからコレラ菌きんが検出けんしゅつされた。

    Cholera germs were found in the food.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ねずみはペスト菌きんを運はこぶ。

    Rats carry the plague.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. なお納豆なっとうを乾燥かんそうさせても、納豆なっとう菌きんは死滅しめつしない。

    Even if natto is dried, the bacillus subtilis natto will not die out.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 菌

  • 菌germ; fungusOnキン

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