amylobacter

== English == === Etymology === From Latin amylum (“starch”) + bacterium. === Noun === amylobacter (plural amylobacters) (biology) A bacillus (Clostridium butyricum) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. It has medicinal uses === References === “amylobacter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Further reading === Clostridium butyricum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Clostridium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Clostridium butyricum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Clostridium at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature == French == === Noun === amylobacter m (plural amylobacters) amylobacter === Further reading === “amylobacter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012