ZOOGLOEA
\zuːɡlˈi͡ə], \zuːɡlˈiə], \z_uː_ɡ_l_ˈiə]\
Definitions of ZOOGLOEA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.
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A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.
By Noah Webster.
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A genus of PSEUDOMONADACEAE occurring as rod-shaped cells embedded in a gelatinous matrix. It includes Z. filipendula.
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By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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[Greek] A mass of bacteria embedded in a mucilaginous matrix, frequently forming an iridescent film (zool.).
By J.H. Kenneth
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z[=o]-[=o]-gl[=e]'a, n. the term applied to the resting, motionless stage of the Bacteria, in which they are embedded in gelatinous material.--adjs. ZOOGLOE'IC; ZOOGLOE'OID. [Gr. z[=o]on, an animal, gloios, a sticky substance.]
By Thomas Davidson
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