true bacteria

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true bacteria - a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagellaeubacteria, eubacteriummoneran, moneron - organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesisbacteria, bacterium - (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plantsB, bacillus - aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soilcocci, coccus - any spherical or nearly spherical bacteriacoccobacillus - a bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillusspirilla, spirillum - any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike formdivision Eubacteria - one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagellaclostridia, clostridium - spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endosporebotulinum, botulinus, Clostridium botulinum - anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulismclostridium perfringens - anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweaponblue-green algae, cyanobacteria - predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplanktonphototrophic bacteria, phototropic bacteria - green and purple bacteria; energy for growth is derived from sunlight; carbon is derived from carbon dioxide or organic carbonpseudomonad - bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animalsxanthomonad - bacteria producing yellow non-water-soluble pigments; some pathogenic for plantsnitric bacteria, nitrobacteria - soil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitratesnitrosobacteria, nitrous bacteria - soil bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitritesthiobacillus - small rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfurspirillum - spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant watervibrio, vibrion - curved rodlike motile bacteriumcorynebacterium - any species of the genus Corynebacteriumlisteria - any species of the genus Listeriaenteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria, entric - rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animalsendospore-forming bacteria - a group of true bacteriarickettsia - 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; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beingschlamydia - coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals; cause infections of eyes and lungs and genitourinary tractmycoplasma - any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infectionactinomycete - any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetalesactinomyces - soil-inhabiting saprophytes and disease-producing plant and animal parasitesmycobacteria, mycobacterium - rod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseasesgliding bacteria, myxobacter, myxobacteria, myxobacterium, slime bacteria - bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal wastelactobacillus - a Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that produces lactic acid (especially in milk)strep, streptococci, streptococcus - spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitisspirochaete, spirochete - parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animalsflagellum - a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa)

true bacteria

true bacteria

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noun a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls

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