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    SLIME BACTERIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    gliding bacteria; myxobacter; myxobacteria; myxobacterium; slime bacteria

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("slime bacteria" is a kind of...):

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

    Holonyms ("slime bacteria" is a member of...):

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

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