sentences:  Its cells are curved rods with a single polar flagellum.The etymology of the genus is Latin "alter" -"tera" -"terum", another, different; "monas" (μονάς), a noun with a special meaning in microbiology used to mean unicellular organism; to give "Alteromonas", another monad
  
  Members of the genus "Alteromonas" can be referred to as alteromonads ("viz.