gliding bacteria

What does gliding bacteria mean?

gliding bacteria means "bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste".

What is another word for gliding bacteria?

Close synonyms include myxobacteria, myxobacterium, myxobacter, slime bacteria. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gliding bacteria a common word?

gliding bacteria is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gliding bacteria come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.