purple bacteria

Meaning

Noun

• The proteobacteria that produce their own food using photosynthesis, with colors including purple, red, brown, and orange.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• purple sulfur bacteria (order Chromatiales), purple non-sulfur bacteria (orders Rhodospirillales and Rhizobiales and families Rhodobacteraceae (family), Rhodocyclaceae, and Comamonadaceae)