AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Agrobacterium tumefaciens mean? 

• AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS (noun)
  The noun AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS has 1 sense:

1. the bacteria that produce crown gall disease in plants

  Familiarity information: AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bacteria that produce crown gall disease in plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Agrobacterium tumefaciens" is a kind of...):

bacteria species (a species of bacteria)

Holonyms ("Agrobacterium tumefaciens" is a member of...):

Agrobacterium; genus Agrobacterium (small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems)

 Context examples 

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

(Agrobacterium tumefaciens, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)