Flavobacterium

noun

Flavo·​bacterium

¦flā(ˌ)vō, 

¦fla(-+

: a genus related to Achromobacter and comprising soil or water bacteria that produce yellow or orange pigments and often reduce nitrates to nitrites

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from flav- + bacterium

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Rhymes for Flavobacterium

• magisterium
• ministerium
• agrobacterium
• corynebacterium
• mycobacterium
• bacterium
• delirium
• deuterium
• imperium
• puerperium
• venereum
• cyanobacterium