1. Bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste
   - myxobacteria, myxobacterium, myxobacter, gliding bacteria

Type of: eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria

Part of: Myxobacterales, Myxobacteriales, order Myxobacterales, order Myxobacteria, order Myxobacteriales

Encyclopedia: Slime bacteria

• cachinnation
• cachou
• Cacicus
• cacique
• cack
• cack-handed
• cack-handedness
• cackel
• cackle
• cackler
• cackly
• cacodaemon
• cacodaemonic
• cacodemon
• cacodemonic
• cacodyl
• cacodyl group
• cacodyl radical
• cacodylic
• cacoethes
• cacogenesis
• cacogenic
• cacogenics
• cacography
• cacomistle