THIOBACILLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thiobacillus mean? 

• THIOBACILLUS (noun)
  The noun THIOBACILLUS has 1 sense:

1. small rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfur

  Familiarity information: THIOBACILLUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIOBACILLUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("thiobacillus" 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 "thiobacillus"):

sulfur bacteria; sulphur bacteria; thiobacteria (any bacterium of the genus Thiobacillus)

Holonyms ("thiobacillus" is a member of...):

genus Thiobacillus (a genus of bacteria)