PLEUROPNEUMONIALIKE ORGANISM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans

Synonyms:

pleuropneumonialike organism; PPLO

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pleuropneumonialike organism" is a kind of...):

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

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