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BACTERIA GENUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of bacteria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bacteria genus" is a kind of...):
genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bacteria genus"):
genus Klebsiella; genus Salmonella (a genus of bacteria)
genus Serratia; Serratia (a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod)
genus Shigella; genus Erwinia (a genus of bacteria)
genus Rickettsia (can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans)
genus Chlamydia (type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: disease-causing parasites)
genus Mycoplasma (type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae)
genus Actinomyces (type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae)
genus Streptomyces (type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae)
genus Mycobacterium (nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria)
genus Polyangium; Polyangium (type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane)
genus Micrococcus; Micrococcus (type genus of the family Micrococcaceae)
genus Staphylococcus (includes many pathogenic species)
genus Lactobacillus (type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae)
genus Diplococcus; genus Streptococcus (a genus of bacteria)
genus Spirochaeta; Spirochaeta (the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae; a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic)
genus Treponema (type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body; parasitic in warm-blooded animals)
genus Borrelia (small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals)
genus Leptospira (very slender aerobic spirochetes; free-living or parasitic in mammals)
genus Heliobacter; Heliobacter (a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella; found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans))
Aerobacter; genus Aerobacter (aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature)
genus Rhizobium; Rhizobium (the type genus of Rhizobiaceae; usually occur in the root nodules of legumes; can fix atmospheric oxygen)
Agrobacterium; genus Agrobacterium (small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems)
genus Bacillus (type genus of the Bacillaceae; includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites)
genus Clostridium (anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes; nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung)
genus Nostoc (type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae)
genus Trichodesmium (a genus of blue-green algae)
genus Pseudomonas; Pseudomonas (type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae)
genus Xanthomonas; Xanthomonas (a genus of bacteria similar to Pseudomonas but producing a yellow pigment that is not soluble in water)
family Nitrobacteriaceae; Nitrobacteriaceae (usually rod-shaped bacteria that oxidize ammonia or nitrites: nitrobacteria)
genus Nitrobacter; Nitrobacter (rod-shaped soil bacteria)
genus Nitrosomonas; Nitrosomonas (ellipsoidal soil bacteria)
genus Thiobacillus; genus Spirillum; genus Vibrio (a genus of bacteria)
Bacteroides; genus Bacteroides (type genus of Bacteroidaceae; genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals)
genus Corynebacterium (the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature; the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals)
genus Listeria (a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods)
genus Escherichia (a genus of bacteria)
Holonyms ("bacteria genus" is a member of...):
division Eubacteria (one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella)
