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Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion, “small staff”).
Proper noun
Bacteria
- (in the three-domain system) A taxonomic domain comprising the single kingdom also called Bacteria, containing about 25 phyla.
- (in the two-empire or two-superkingdom systems) A taxonomic kingdom within the superkingdom Prokaryota – single-cell organisms (the bacteria); once divided into the Archaebacteria and Eubacteria.[1]
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Hyponyms
- (kingdom): Negibacteria, Posibacteria – subkingdoms
- Acidobacteriota (syn. Acidobacteria), Armatimonadota (syn. Aquificae), Armatimonadetes, Bacteroidetes, Caldiserica, Chlamydiae, Chlorobi, Chrysiogenetes, Cyanobacteria, Deferribacteres, Deinococcus-Thermus, Dictyoglomi, Elusimicrobia, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Nitrospira, Planctomycetes, Pseudomonadota (syn. Proteobacteria), Spirochaetae, Synergistetes, Thermodesulfobacteria, Thermotogae, Verrucomicrobia – phyla in Negibacteria
- Actinomycetota (syn. Actinobacteria), Chloroflexota (syn. Chloroflexi), Bacillota (syn. Firmicutes), Tenericutes – phyla in Posibacteria[1]
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