BRUCELLA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An aerobic Gram-negative coccobacillus that causes brucellosis; can be used as a bioweapon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Brucella" is a kind of...):

coccobacillus (a bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus)

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