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Vibrio

noun
1.
Curved rodlike motile bacterium.  Synonym: vibrion.



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"Vibrio" Quotes from Famous Books



... Vibrio metschnikovi. to contrast with Vibrio proteus (Finkler and Prior). Spirillum rubrum. ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre

... motive power of the plasmodium has suggested to many that they should be placed in the animal kingdom, or called fungus animals. The same is true of Schizomycetes, to which all the bacteria, bacillus, spirillum, and vibrio, and a number of other groups belong. I have only a few Myxomycetes to present. I have watched the development of a number of plants of this group, but because of the scarcity of literature upon the subject I have been ...
— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard

... definitions of it. In its most general sense, the term microbe designates certain colorless algae belonging to the family Bacteriaceae, the principal forms of which are known under the name of Micrococcus. Bacterium, Bacillus. Vibrio, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 • Various



Words linked to "Vibrio" :   eubacteria, comma bacillus, true bacteria, eubacterium



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