Agrobacterium
noun
Ag·ro·bac·te·ri·um
¦a-grō-ˌbak-ˈtir-ē-əm
: a genus of small usually gram-negative and motile bacterial rods (family Rhizobiaceae) including soil forms that vigorously reduce nitrates and several pathogens of cultivated plants that typically cause galls on stems compare crown gall
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from agro- + bacterium
First Known Use
1942, in the meaning defined above
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