sulfur bacteria

1. 1.

   any bacterium of the genus Thiobacillus

   Synonymsthiobacteriasulphur bacteria

   Broaderthiobacillus

Questions about sulfur bacteria

What does sulfur bacteria mean?

sulfur bacteria means "any bacterium of the genus Thiobacillus".

What is another word for sulfur bacteria?

Close synonyms include thiobacteria, sulphur 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 sulfur bacteria a common word?

sulfur 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.