true bacteria

Questions about true bacteria

What does true bacteria mean?

true bacteria means "a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella".

What is another word for true bacteria?

Close synonyms include eubacteria, eubacterium. 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 true bacteria a common word?

true 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.