SHIGELLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shigella mean? 

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

1. rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIGELLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

enteric bacteria; enterics; enterobacteria; entric (rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals)

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

shiga bacillus; Shigella dysentariae (a bacillus that causes dysentery)

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

genus Shigella (a genus of bacteria)

 Context examples 

Shigella and Salmonella are the examples of bacteria entering cells using the trigger model.

(Bacterial Invasion of Epithelial Cell Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)