YERSINIA PESTIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bacillus bacterium that causes the plague; aerosolized bacteria can be used as a bioweapon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Yersinia pestis" is a kind of...):

B; bacillus (aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil)

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