sulphur bacteria

1. 1.

   any bacterium of the genus Thiobacillus

   Synonymsthiobacteriasulfur bacteria

   Broaderthiobacillus

Questions about sulphur bacteria

What does sulphur bacteria mean?

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

What is another word for sulphur bacteria?

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

sulphur 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.