microbiota

From micro- + biota.

microbiota (plural microbiotas or microbiota)

1. The microbial community that inhabits a multi-cellular organism, whether the entire organism or a specific body surface.
   • 2018 March 26, Nicola Davis, “The human microbiome: why our microbes could be key to our health”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 April 2021:

     Your body’s microbiome is all the genes your microbiota contains, however colloquially the two terms are often used interchangeably.

   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 348:

     Caesarean babies eventually acquire the same mix of microbes as those born vaginally — by a year, their microbiota are usually indistinguishable.

• microfauna
• microflora
• microbiome

Borrowed from English microbiota, equivalent to micro- +‎ biota.

• IPA^(key): /mikɾoˈbjota/ [mi.kɾoˈβ̞jo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: mi‧cro‧bio‧ta

microbiota f (plural microbiotas)

1. microbiota

• “microbiota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025