Vibrio

See also: vibrio

Translingual

Etymology

Coined by Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini in 1854, from Italian vibrione, from Latin vībro (“to move rapidly to and fro, to shake, to agitate”) +‎ Italian -one (“-er, -or”, nominal suffix).

Proper noun

Vibrio m

A taxonomic genus within the family Vibrionaceae – gram-negative bacteria possessing a curved rod shape (comma shape), several species of which can cause foodborne infection.

Hypernyms

(genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria - class; Enterobacterales - order; Vibrionaceae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Vibrio cholerae - type species; Vibrio alginolyticus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio vulnificus - selected other species

Derived terms

References

Vibrio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Vibrio on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Vibrio on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Vibrio in the Genome Taxonomy Database

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