Vibrio
See also: vibrio
Translingual
editEtymology
editCoined 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
editVibrio m
- 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
edit- (genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria - class; Enterobacterales - order; Vibrionaceae - family
Hyponyms
edit- (genus): Vibrio cholerae - type species; Vibrio alginolyticus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio vulnificus - selected other species
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Vibrio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Vibrio on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Vibrio on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Vibrio in the Genome Taxonomy Database