true bacteria vs spirillum

spirillum vs true bacteria

true bacteria and spirillum both are nouns.

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

As nouns, spirillum is a hyponym of true bacteria; that is, spirillum 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
spirillum: any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form

Other hyponyms of true bacteria include B, bacillus, cocci, coccus, coccobacillus, spirilla, 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, 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)	spirillum (noun)
a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella	any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form
	spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water

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