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TRUE BACTERIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
Synonyms:
eubacteria; eubacterium; true bacteria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("true bacteria" is a kind of...):
moneran; moneron (organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis)
bacteria; 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 plants)
Meronyms (parts of "true bacteria"):
flagellum (a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "true bacteria"):
spirochaete; spirochete (parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals)
strep; streptococci; streptococcus (spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis)
lactobacillus (a Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that produces lactic acid (especially in milk))
gliding bacteria; myxobacter; myxobacteria; myxobacterium; slime bacteria (bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste)
mycobacteria; mycobacterium (rod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseases)
actinomyces (soil-inhabiting saprophytes and disease-producing plant and animal parasites)
actinomycete (any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales)
mycoplasma (any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection)
chlamydia (coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals; cause infections of eyes and lungs and genitourinary tract)
rickettsia (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 beings)
endospore-forming bacteria (a group of true bacteria)
enteric bacteria; enterics; enterobacteria; entric (rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals)
listeria (any species of the genus Listeria)
corynebacterium (any species of the genus Corynebacterium)
vibrio; vibrion (curved rodlike motile bacterium)
spirillum (spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water)
thiobacillus (small rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfur)
nitrosobacteria; nitrous bacteria (soil bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrites)
nitric bacteria; nitrobacteria (soil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitrates)
xanthomonad (bacteria producing yellow non-water-soluble pigments; some pathogenic for plants)
pseudomonad (bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animals)
phototrophic bacteria; phototropic bacteria (green and purple bacteria; energy for growth is derived from sunlight; carbon is derived from carbon dioxide or organic carbon)
blue-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 phytoplankton)
clostridium perfringens (anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweapon)
botulinum; botulinus; Clostridium botulinum (anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism)
clostridia; clostridium (spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore)
spirilla; spirillum (any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form)
coccobacillus (a bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus)
cocci; coccus (any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria)
B; bacillus (aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil)
Holonyms ("true bacteria" is a member of...):
division Eubacteria (one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella)
