MYXOBACTERIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste

Synonyms:

gliding bacteria; myxobacter; myxobacteria; myxobacterium; slime bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("myxobacteria" is a kind of...):

eubacteria; eubacterium; true bacteria (a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella)

Holonyms ("myxobacteria" is a member of...):

Myxobacterales; Myxobacteriales; order Myxobacterales; order Myxobacteria; order Myxobacteriales (an order of higher bacteria)

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