English Explanatory Dictionary

amylobacter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bacillus (Clostridium butyricum) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. It has medicinal uses

Word forms

amylobacter amylobacters

Etymology

From Latin amylum (“starch”) + bacterium.

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