true bacteria vs bacillus

bacillus vs true bacteria

true bacteria and bacillus both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
true bacteria	Yes	No	No	No
bacillus	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bacillus is a hyponym of true bacteria; that is, bacillus is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than true bacteria:

true bacteria: a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
bacillus: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

Other hyponyms of true bacteria include B, cocci, coccus, coccobacillus, spirilla, spirillum, clostridia, clostridium, botulinum, botulinus, Clostridium botulinum, clostridium perfringens, blue-green algae, cyanobacteria, phototrophic bacteria, phototropic bacteria, pseudomonad, xanthomonad, nitric bacteria, nitrobacteria, nitrosobacteria, nitrous bacteria, thiobacillus, spirillum, vibrio, vibrion, corynebacterium, listeria, enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria, entric, endospore-forming bacteria, rickettsia, chlamydia, mycoplasma, actinomycete, actinomyces, mycobacteria, mycobacterium, gliding bacteria, myxobacter, myxobacteria, myxobacterium, slime bacteria, lactobacillus, strep, streptococci, streptococcus, spirochaete, spirochete.

true bacteria (noun)	bacillus (noun)
a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella	aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

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