true bacteria vs clostridium

clostridium vs true bacteria

true bacteria and clostridium both are nouns.

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

As nouns, clostridium is a hyponym of true bacteria; that is, clostridium 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
clostridium: spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore

Other hyponyms of true bacteria include B, bacillus, cocci, coccus, coccobacillus, spirilla, spirillum, clostridia, 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)	clostridium (noun)
a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella	spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore

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