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Definition of Genus Vibrio
1. Noun. A genus of bacteria.
Group relationships: Family Spirillaceae, Spirillaceae
Member holonyms: Vibrio, Vibrion, Comma Bacillus, Vibrio Comma, Vibrio Fetus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Vibrio
Literary usage of Genus Vibrio
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases by Erwin Frink Smith (1905)
"The only other member of Cohn's genus Vibrio (emend.), V. serpens, is still less
like the cholera organism. Ehrenberg's figure of Vibrio lineola Miiller ..."
2. An Introduction to Entomology: Or, Elements of the Natural History of by William Kirby, William Spence (1846)
"... genus Vibrio as formerly extended by Mailer and Bory de St. Vincent, (to which,
from their resemblance to the so called vinegar eels, Vibrio anguilla, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1850)
"Even those moving filamentary bodies belonging to the genus Vibrio, I am inclined
to think, are of the character of ..."
4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"A. Body filiform, cylindrical, bending itself in undulations. genus Vibrio. B.
Body filiform, rigid, and rolling itself in ..."