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Pamphleteer Main Entry: 2pamphleteer Function: intransitive verb 1 : to write and publish pamphlets 2 : to engage in partisan arguments indirectly in writings : a writer of pamphlets attacking something or urging a cause
PHAGE phage - a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria; "phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria" bacteriophage virus - (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein coliphage - a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli typhoid bacteriophage - a bacteriophage specific for the bacterium Salmonella typhi