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COLIPHAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coliphage mean?
• COLIPHAGE (noun)
The noun COLIPHAGE has 1 sense:
1. a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli
Familiarity information: COLIPHAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("coliphage" is a kind of...):
bacteriophage; phage (a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria)
Context examples
It is the largest of the coliphages and consists of double-stranded DNA, terminally redundant, and circularly permuted.
(Bacteriophage P1, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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