👉 "Selenomonas like" is like saying something has a cosmic, slightly alien vibe that's just downright otherworldly, but with bacteria. It's a play on words, really - you're comparing a microbe to a celestial body because they both have a celestial, almost extraterrestrial, charm.
Here's an unsettling example sentence: "The Selenomonas-like bacteria in the Mars soil sample were so otherworldly, I wondered if they'd adopted Earth's existential dread as their new daily theme song."
