DIVISION EUBACTERIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does division Eubacteria mean? 

• DIVISION EUBACTERIA (noun)
  The noun DIVISION EUBACTERIA has 1 sense:

1. one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella

  Familiarity information: DIVISION EUBACTERIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVISION EUBACTERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("division Eubacteria" is a kind of...):

division ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)

Meronyms (members of "division Eubacteria"):

division Schizophyta; Schizophyta (former term for the Cyanophyta)

order Spirochaetales; Spirochaetales (higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms)

family Micrococcaceae; Micrococcaceae (spherical or elliptical usually aerobic eubacteria that produce yellow or orange or red pigment; includes toxin-producing forms as well as harmless commensals and saprophytes)

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

Actinomycetales; order Actinomycetales (filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria)

Mycoplasmatales; order Mycoplasmatales (coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae)

order Rickettsiales; Rickettsiales (pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms)

order Pseudomonadales; Pseudomonadales (one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella; some contain photosynthetic pigments)

Cyanophyta; division Cyanophyta (prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom; coextensive with the Cyanophyceae: cyanobacteria (blue-green algae))

Eubacteriales; order Eubacteriales (one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms; some are motile; in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes)

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

bacteria species (a species of bacteria)

bacteria genus (a genus of bacteria)

bacteria family (a family of bacteria)

bacteria order (an order of bacteria)

Holonyms ("division Eubacteria" is a member of...):

kingdom Monera; kingdom Prokaryotae; Monera; Prokayotae (prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions)