Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
amylobacterium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A microörganism (
Bacillus amylobacter ) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.
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- noun biology A
microorganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops invegetable tissue duringputrefaction .
Etymologies
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Van Senus showed that the concurrence of two bacteria is necessary before his _B. amylobacter_ can ferment cellulose, and the case of mud bacteria which evolve sulphuretted hydrogen below which is utilized by sulphur bacteria above has already been quoted, as also that of Winogradsky's
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Thus, _Bacillus amylobacter_ (Fig. 2, II.), as Mr. Van Tieghem has shown, subsists upon the hydrocarbons contained in plants, and disorganizes vegetable tissues in disengaging hydrogen, carbonic acid, and vegetable acids.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various
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Thus, in water in which plants have been macerated the surface of the liquid is occupied by _Bacillus subtilis_. which has need of free oxygen in order to live, while in the bulk of the liquid, in the vegetable tissues, we find other bacteria, notably _B. amylobacter_, which lives very well by consuming oxygen in a state of combination.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various
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These are ferments, such as _Bacillus amylobacter, _ or butyric ferment, and _B. septicus_, or ferment of the putrefaction of nitrogenized substances.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various
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