amylobacter
English
Etymology
From Latin amylum (“starch”) + bacterium.
Noun
amylobacter (plural amylobacters)
- (biology) A microorganism (Clostridium butyricum, syn. Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.
Further reading
Clostridium butyricum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Clostridium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Clostridium butyricum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Clostridium at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for amylobacter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Noun
amylobacter m (plural amylobacters)
- amylobacter
Further reading
- “amylobacter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.