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FAMILY CORYNEBACTERIACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large family of mostly Gram-positive and aerobic and nonmotile rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales
Synonyms:
Corynebacteriaceae; family Corynebacteriaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Corynebacteriaceae" is a kind of...):
bacteria family (a family of bacteria)
Meronyms (members of "family Corynebacteriaceae"):
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)
Holonyms ("family Corynebacteriaceae" is a member of...):
Eubacteriales; order Eubacteriales (one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms; some are motile; in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes)
