purple sulfur bacterium

English

Etymology

purple (“color”) +‎ sulfur bacterium

Noun

purple sulfur bacterium (plural purple sulfur bacteria)

  1. (bacteriology) Any gammaproteobacterium of the order Chromatiales.

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