FAMILY ACTINOMYCETACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Actinomycetaceae mean? 

• FAMILY ACTINOMYCETACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY ACTINOMYCETACEAE has 1 sense:

1. filamentous anaerobic bacteria

  Familiarity information: FAMILY ACTINOMYCETACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ACTINOMYCETACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filamentous anaerobic bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Actinomycetaceae; family Actinomycetaceae

Hypernyms ("family Actinomycetaceae" is a kind of...):

bacteria family (a family of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "family Actinomycetaceae"):

genus Actinomyces (type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae)

Holonyms ("family Actinomycetaceae" is a member of...):

Actinomycetales; order Actinomycetales (filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria)

 Context examples 

A genus of anaerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria and the family Actinomycetaceae.

(Mobiluncus, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria and the family Actinomycetaceae.

(Arcanobacterium, NCI Thesaurus)