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FAMILY BACILLACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Bacillaceae mean? 

FAMILY BACILLACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY BACILLACEAE has 1 sense:

1. typically rod-shaped usually Gram-positive bacteria that produce endosporesplay

  Familiarity information: FAMILY BACILLACEAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY BACILLACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Typically rod-shaped usually Gram-positive bacteria that produce endospores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bacillaceae; family Bacillaceae

Hypernyms ("family Bacillaceae" is a kind of...):

bacteria family (a family of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "family Bacillaceae"):

genus Bacillus (type genus of the Bacillaceae; includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites)

genus Clostridium (anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes; nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung)

Holonyms ("family Bacillaceae" is a member of...):

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)


 Context examples 


A genus of Gram variable, motile, halophilic, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Bacillaceae.

(Halobacillus, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of motile, Gram positive, endospore forming rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Bacillaceae.

(Gracilibacillus, NCI Thesaurus)



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