gliding bacteria

plural noun

bacteria that form colonies in a self-produced slime that permits them to glide, mainly inhabiting moist soils, decaying plant matter, animal waste, and rotting tree bark: some species produce brightly colored, funguslike fruiting bodies.

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Also called slime bacteria, myxobacteria.

Words nearby gliding bacteria

glide slope, glide time, glidepath, glider, gliding, gliding bacteria, gliding joint, gliding lemur, glim, glimmer, glimmer ice
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