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SLIME BACTERIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste
Synonyms:
gliding bacteria; myxobacter; myxobacteria; myxobacterium; slime bacteria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("slime bacteria" is a kind of...):
eubacteria; eubacterium; true bacteria (a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella)
Holonyms ("slime bacteria" is a member of...):
Myxobacterales; Myxobacteriales; order Myxobacterales; order Myxobacteria; order Myxobacteriales (an order of higher bacteria)
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