TRUE BACTERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does true bacteria mean? 

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

1. a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUE BACTERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

eubacteria; eubacterium; true bacteria

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

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)

moneran; moneron (organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis)

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"):

spirillum (spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water)

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)

B; bacillus (aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil)

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)

Holonyms ("true bacteria" is a member of...):

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