STREPTOMYCES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does streptomyces mean? 

• STREPTOMYCES (noun)
  The noun STREPTOMYCES has 1 sense:

1. aerobic bacteria (some of which produce the antibiotic streptomycin)

  Familiarity information: STREPTOMYCES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREPTOMYCES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aerobic bacteria (some of which produce the antibiotic streptomycin)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("streptomyces" is a kind of...):

actinomycete (any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "streptomyces"):

Streptomyces erythreus (source of the antibiotic erythromycin)

Streptomyces griseus (source of the antibiotic streptomycin)

potato scab bacteria; Streptomyces scabies (cause of a potato disease characterized by brownish corky tissue)

Holonyms ("streptomyces" is a member of...):

genus Streptomyces (type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae)

 Context examples 

A semi-synthetic beta-lactamase inhibitor isolated from streptomyces.

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