English > true bacteria: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | A large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella. |
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| Synonyms | eubacteria, eubacterium |
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| Member of | division Eubacteria | one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella |
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| Parts | flagellum | A lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa) |
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| Narrower | actinomyces | soil-inhabiting saprophytes and disease-producing plant and animal parasites |
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| actinomycete | Any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales |
| bacillus, B | aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing / producing bacterium |
| botulinus, botulinum, Clostridium botulinum | anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism |
| chlamydia | coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals |
| clostridium, clostridia | spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore |
| clostridium perfringens | anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin |
| coccobacillus | A bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus |
| coccus, cocci | Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria |
| corynebacterium | Any species of the genus Corynebacterium |
| cyanobacteria, blue-green algae | predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing / containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll |
| endospore-forming bacteria | A group of true bacteria |
| enteric bacteria, enterobacteria, enterics, entric | rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria |
| lactobacillus | A Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that produces lactic acid (especially in milk) |
| listeria | Any species of the genus Listeria |
| mycobacteria, mycobacterium | rod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseases |
| mycoplasma | Any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen |
| myxobacteria, myxobacterium, myxobacter, gliding bacteria, slime bacteria | bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime |
| nitric bacteria, nitrobacteria | soil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitrates |
| nitrosobacteria, nitrous bacteria | soil bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrites |
| phototrophic bacteria, phototropic bacteria | green and purple bacteria |
| pseudomonad | bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment |
| rickettsia | Any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts |
| spirillum, spirilla | Any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form / form |
| spirillum | spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water |
| spirochete, spirochaete | Parasitic or free-living bacteria |
| streptococcus, streptococci, strep | Spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains |
| thiobacillus | small rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfur |
| vibrio, vibrion | curved rodlike motile bacterium |
| xanthomonad | bacteria producing yellow non-water-soluble pigments |
| Broader | bacteria, bacterium | (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission |
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| moneran, moneron | organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis |
| Spanish | eubacteria, eubacterias, eubacterium |
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| Catalan | eubactèria, eubacteri, eubacterium, verdadera bactèria |
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