purple sulfur bacterium
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Etymology
[edit]purple (“color”) + sulfur bacterium
Noun
[edit]purple sulfur bacterium (plural purple sulfur bacteria)
- (bacteriology) Any gammaproteobacterium of the order Chromatiales.
See also
[edit]Purple sulfur bacteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia