thiobacillus

English Thesaurus

1. small rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfur (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria,
definition	:	a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	sulfur bacteria, sulphur bacteria, thiobacteria,
definition	:	any bacterium of the genus Thiobacillus (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus thiobacillus,
definition	:	a genus of bacteria (noun.animal)