gliding bacteria
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Noun | 1. | gliding bacteria - bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria - a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella Myxobacterales, Myxobacteriales, order Myxobacterales, order Myxobacteria, order Myxobacteriales - an order of higher bacteria |
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