Word Meanings - BACTERIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

BACTERIUM
A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algæ, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They
PHOTOBACTERIUM
A genus including certain comma-shaped marine bacteria which emit bluish or greenish phosphorescence. Also, any microörganism of this group.
COCCOBACTERIUM
One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.