CORYNEBACTERIUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any species of the genus Corynebacterium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

eubacteria; eubacterium; true bacteria (a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corynebacterium"):

C. diphtheriae; Corynebacterium diphtheriae; Klebs-Loeffler bacillus (a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria)

Holonyms ("corynebacterium" is a member of...):

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)

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