Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of Schizomycetes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A family of bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung; called also
Polyangiaceae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung
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In 1892, however, Thaxter rediscovered it and showed its bacterial nature, founding for it and some allied forms the group Myxobacteriaceae.
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Myxobacteriaceae suggests a relationship with the Myxomycetes.
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Observations on the Myxobacteriaceae, "_ibid. _ vol.xxiii. (1897), p. 395, and" Notes on the Myxobacteriaceae, "_ibid. _ vol.xxxvii. (1904), p. 405;
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Botanik_, by permission of Gustav Fischer.] _Myxobacteriaceae.
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