ORDER MYXOBACTERIALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Myxobacteriales mean? 

• ORDER MYXOBACTERIALES (noun)
  The noun ORDER MYXOBACTERIALES has 1 sense:

1. an order of higher bacteria

  Familiarity information: ORDER MYXOBACTERIALES used as a noun is very rare.

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• ORDER MYXOBACTERIALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of higher bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Myxobacterales; Myxobacteriales; order Myxobacterales; order Myxobacteria; order Myxobacteriales

Hypernyms ("order Myxobacteriales" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Myxobacteriales"):

family Myxobacteriaceae; family Polyangiaceae; Myxobacteriaceae; Polyangiaceae (bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung)

gliding bacteria; myxobacter; myxobacteria; myxobacterium; slime bacteria (bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste)

Holonyms ("order Myxobacteriales" is a member of...):

division Eubacteria (one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella)