The Collaborative International Dictionary
Microbacteria \Mi`cro*bac*te"ri*a\, n. pl. [NL. See Micro-, and Bacterium.] (Biol.) In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria. Note: In this classification bacteria are divided into four tribes:
Spherobacteria, or spherical bacteria, as the genus Micrococcus.
Microbacteria, or bacteria in the form of short rods, including the genus Bacterium.
Desmobacteria, or bacteria in straight filaments, of which the genus Bacillus is a type.
Spirobacteria, or bacteria in spiral filaments, as the genus Vibrio.
Usage examples of "microbacteria".
They got in their cars and drove on freeways, smoking cigarettes and holding high-energy radio transmitters against their heads, in order to get to newsrooms where they were greatly concerned to find out if they were in danger from microbacteria locked away behind triple hermetic seals in Houston.
Sandy regolith, infected by the water and microbacteria flowing through it, became fellfield with shocking speed, she found, and the fragile landforms were quickly destroyed.
On Earth these regions were first colonized by microbacteria and lichen, which, along with chemical weathering, began to break the rock down into a thin immature soil, slowly filling the cracks between rocks.
Desert pavement formed by microbacteria was one very promising solution, though it tended to fix only the top centimeter of deposits, and if the wind tore the edge of the pavement, what was underneath was then free to be borne away.
No microbacteria, nanobacteria, archaea, or nanofossils were found in any retrieved rock, all of which was retrieved and handled using GEC-mandated sterilization techniques.
Sax assured the crowd that atmospheric, surface, and permafrost microbacteria were growing at a rate that was a significant fraction of their theoretical maximums—about at 2 percent, to be precise—and that they were going to have to be considering the problems of outdoor cultivation within a few decades.