| NOUN | animal | genus Clostridium | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes |
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| Meaning | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes; nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung. | |
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| Member of | Bacillaceae, family Bacillaceae | typically rod-shaped usually Gram-positive bacteria that produce endospores |
| Members | botulinus, botulinum, Clostridium botulinum | anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism |
| clostridium, clostridia | spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore | |
| clostridium perfringens | anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin | |
| Broader | bacteria genus | A genus of bacteria |