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Webster 1913 Edition

Amylobacter

Amˊy-lo-bac′ter

,

Noun.

[L.

amyl

um starch + NL.

bacter

ium. See

.]

(Biol.)

A microörganism (

Bacillus amylobacter

) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.

Sternberg.