Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 24 compound words that contain bacterium. The most common are listed below. Open bacterium in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- Conan the BacteriumThe bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans, which is highly resistant to various stresses (especially radiation).
- sulfur bacteriumAny of several bacteria which oxidize inorganic sulfur compounds, especially those bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus
- purple sulfur bacteriumAny gammaproteobacterium of the order Chromatiales.
- Hansen's bacteriumMycobacterium lepromatosis, the bacterium that causes leprosy (Hansen's disease).
- iron bacteriumAny of a group of bacteria that oxidize ferrous iron to ferric iron
- green bacteriumA diverse group of anoxygenic chlorophototrophic bacteria.
- mirror bacteriumAny hypothetical bacterium composed of molecules with chiralities contrary to that of naturally-occurring terrestrial life.
- sulphur bacteriumAlternative spelling of sulfur bath: a curative bath in which the water used has sulfates dissolved in it; especially one in which the source of the water is a natural hot spring
- blue-green bacteriumCyanobacterium.
- nylon-eating bacteriumAny of the strain Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens KI72 of bacteria that can digest certain by-products of nylon 6 manufacture using the enzyme nylonase.
Compound words 24
- photobacteriumAny of the genus Photobacterium of bioluminescent bacteria.
- azotobacteriumany bacterium of the genus Azotobacter
- bacteriumlikeBacterialike.
- betaproteobacteriumAny bacterium of the class Betaproteobacteria
- desulfitobacteriumAny bacterium of the genus Desulfitobacterium
- ferrobacteriumA bacterium that oxidizes ferrous to ferric salts.
- probacteriumAny probiotic bacterium
- agrobacteriumA soil bacterium, of the genus Agrobacterium, which can fix nitrogen, and causes the formation of crown galls in plants.
- halobacteriumAny of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- nitrobacteriumAny of the several genera of bacteria in soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle, oxidizing ammonium and organic nitrogen compounds to the more soluble nitrite and nitrate.