MYCOPLASMA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mycoplasma" 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 "mycoplasma"):

pleuropneumonialike organism; PPLO (a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans)

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

genus Mycoplasma (type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae)

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