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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bacteriophage /bakˈtɪərɪə(ʊ)feɪdʒ, -fɑːʒ/

▶noun Biology a kind of virus which parasitizes a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing inside it.

– origin 1920s: from bacterium + Gk phagein ‘eat’.

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