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GENUS VIBRIO

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Vibrio" is a kind of...):

bacteria genus (a genus of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "genus Vibrio"):

vibrio; vibrion (curved rodlike motile bacterium)

comma bacillus; Vibrio comma (comma-shaped bacteria that cause Asiatic cholera)

Vibrio fetus (bacteria that cause abortion in sheep)

Holonyms ("genus Vibrio" is a member of...):

family Spirillaceae; Spirillaceae (rigid spirally curved elongate bacteria)

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