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proteobacterium

proteobacterium noun: any microbe of the phylum Proteobacteria, many of which are pathogenic.

Noun

proteobacterium (plural proteobacteria)

  1. Any microbe of the phylum Proteobacteria, many of which are pathogenic.

Forms of proteobacterium

pluralproteobacteria

Questions about proteobacterium

What does proteobacterium mean?
Proteobacterium means any microbe of the phylum Proteobacteria, many of which are pathogenic.
What part of speech is proteobacterium?
Proteobacterium is a noun.
What is the plural of proteobacterium?
The plural of proteobacterium is proteobacteria.

Words near proteobacterium in the dictionary

  1. proteoanabolic
  2. proteoarchaeal
  3. proteoastasis
  4. proteobacteria
  5. proteobacterial
  6. proteobacterium
  7. proteocatabolic
  8. proteocatalytic
  9. proteocephalidean
  10. proteocephalideans
  11. proteoceratid

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