Vibrio

See also: vibrio

Translingual

Vibrio cholerae

Etymology

Coined by Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini in 1854, from Italian vibrione, from Latin vībro (“to move rapidly to and fro, to shake, to agitate”) +‎ Italian -one (“-er, -or”, nominal suffix).

Proper noun

Vibrio m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Vibrionaceae – gram-negative bacteria possessing a curved rod shape (comma shape), several species of which can cause foodborne infection.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria – class; Enterobacterales – order; Vibrionaceae – family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Vibrio cholerae - type species; Vibrio alginolyticus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio vulnificus - selected other species

Derived terms

• Aliivibrio
• Bdellovibrio
• Cellvibrio
• Enterovibrio
• Salinivibrio
• Vibrionaceae

References

• Vibrio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vibrio on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vibrio on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Vibrio in the Genome Taxonomy Database