clostridium perfringens
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Noun (1)
- anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweaponType of eubacteria, bioweaponMember of genus Clostridium
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“clostridium perfringens” is listed under clostridium.
clostridium noun clostridia
1. spindle-shaped bacterial cell esp. one swollen at the center by an endospore. Syn. — clostridia.
2. capitalized a genus of anaerobic, spore-forming motile bacteria of the family Bacillaceae, including several pathogenic species, such as the causative agents of gas gangrene (Clostridium perfringens), botulism (Clostridium botulinum), and tetanus (Clostridium tetani).
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54