ACTINOMYCES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does actinomyces mean? 

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

1. soil-inhabiting saprophytes and disease-producing plant and animal parasites

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACTINOMYCES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soil-inhabiting saprophytes and disease-producing plant and animal parasites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

eubacteria; eubacterium; true bacteria (a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella)

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

genus Actinomyces (type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae)

 Context examples 

It is caused by fungi and actinomycetes.

(Mycetoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic family of filamentous or rod shaped bacterium in the phylum Actinobacteria with type genus actinomyces.

(Actinomycetaceae, NCI Thesaurus)