English Explanatory Dictionary

purple sulfur bacterium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any gammaproteobacterium of the order Chromatiales.

Word forms

purple sulfur bacterium purple sulfur bacteria

Etymology

purple (“color”) + sulfur bacterium

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