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LACTOBACILLACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lactobacillaceae mean?
• LACTOBACILLACEAE (noun)
The noun LACTOBACILLACEAE has 1 sense:
1. lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens; bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid
Familiarity information: LACTOBACILLACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens; bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Lactobacillaceae; family Lactobacteriaceae; Lactobacillaceae; Lactobacteriaceae
Hypernyms ("Lactobacillaceae" is a kind of...):
bacteria family (a family of bacteria)
Meronyms (members of "Lactobacillaceae"):
genus Lactobacillus (type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae)
genus Diplococcus; genus Streptococcus (a genus of bacteria)
Holonyms ("Lactobacillaceae" is a member of...):
kingdom Monera; kingdom Prokaryotae; Monera; Prokayotae (prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions)
Context examples
A genus of Gram positive, cocci shaped, lactic acid bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Lactobacillaceae.
(Pediococcus, NCI Thesaurus)
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