PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phototrophic bacteria mean? 

• PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA (noun)
  The noun PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA has 1 sense:

1. green and purple bacteria; energy for growth is derived from sunlight; carbon is derived from carbon dioxide or organic carbon

  Familiarity information: PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Green and purple bacteria; energy for growth is derived from sunlight; carbon is derived from carbon dioxide or organic carbon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

phototrophic bacteria; phototropic bacteria

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phototrophic bacteria"):

purple bacteria (free-living Gram-negative pink to purplish-brown bacteria containing bacteriochlorophyll)