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GENUS VIBRIO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Vibrio mean?
• GENUS VIBRIO (noun)
The noun GENUS VIBRIO has 1 sense:
1. a genus of bacteria
Familiarity information: GENUS VIBRIO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of bacteria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("genus Vibrio" is a kind of...):
bacteria genus (a genus of bacteria)
Meronyms (members of "genus Vibrio"):
vibrio; vibrion (curved rodlike motile bacterium)
comma bacillus; Vibrio comma (comma-shaped bacteria that cause Asiatic cholera)
Vibrio fetus (bacteria that cause abortion in sheep)
Holonyms ("genus Vibrio" is a member of...):
family Spirillaceae; Spirillaceae (rigid spirally curved elongate bacteria)
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