vibrio

Any of various short, motile, S-shaped or comma-shaped bacteria of the genus Vibrio, especially V. cholerae, which causes cholera.

A genus or formgenus of Schizomycetes or bacteria, by some authorities regarded as the same as Spirillum.

[lowercase; pl. vibrios or vibriones (vib′ ri-ōz, vibri-ō′ nēz).] A member of this genus; a vibrion; a motile bacterium.

[lowercase] An animalcule like or mistaken for a bacterium, and misplaced in the genus Vibrio: an old name of some minute nematoids, as those species of Tylenchus which infest wheat and cause ear-cockles.

A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.

Any of several bacteria, of the genus Vibrio, shaped like a curved rod

curved rodlike motile bacterium