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gliding bacteria
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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 plane, glider, glide slope, glide time, gliding, gliding bacteria, gliding joint, gliding lemur, Glière, glim, glimmer
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