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A large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls
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eubacteria
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella [syn: eubacterium , true bacteria ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
singular eubacterium , 1939, coined in German 1930; see eu- , here meaning "good," + bacteria . Classically, as an adverb, eu should form compounds only with verbs.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) (plural of eubacterium English)
Usage examples of eubacteria.
On Earth, early microbial life split into eubacteria and archaebacteria, and all multicellular organisms arose from the archaebacterial lineage.
There were programmed bacteria of every size and shape, eubacteria, spherical cocci, and spirochetes with their whiplike tails.
The Martian organisms must be something else again, as different from the eubacteria and archaebacteria as those two great lineages are from each other.
After all, we share much of our genome with eubacteria, even though the evolutionary divergence between the eubacteria and archaebacteria occurred very soon after the origin of life on Earth.
Perhaps the arrival of an advanced form of Martian life on Earth caused some kind of evolutionary pressure that initiated the split between eubacteria and archaebacteria.
Martian organisms have some property that drove the split between eubacteria and archaebacteria.