GENUS CORYNEBACTERIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Corynebacterium mean? 

• GENUS CORYNEBACTERIUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS CORYNEBACTERIUM has 1 sense:

1. the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature; the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals

  Familiarity information: GENUS CORYNEBACTERIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CORYNEBACTERIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature; the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Corynebacterium" is a kind of...):

bacteria genus (a genus of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "genus Corynebacterium"):

corynebacterium (any species of the genus Corynebacterium)

C. diphtheriae; Corynebacterium diphtheriae; Klebs-Loeffler bacillus (a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria)

Holonyms ("genus Corynebacterium" is a member of...):

Corynebacteriaceae; family Corynebacteriaceae (a large family of mostly Gram-positive and aerobic and nonmotile rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales)

 Context examples 

A taxonomic family of bacterium in the phylum Actinobacteria that includes the genus Corynebacterium.

(Corynebacteriaceae, NCI Thesaurus)