CORYNEBACTERIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corynebacterium mean? 

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

1. any species of the genus Corynebacterium

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORYNEBACTERIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any species of the genus Corynebacterium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

C. diphtheriae; Corynebacterium diphtheriae; Klebs-Loeffler bacillus (a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria)

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

genus Corynebacterium (the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature; the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals)

 Context examples 

A usually mild form of diphtheria characterized by infection of the skin by corynebacterium diphtheria and the resulting formation of a chronic, shallow ulcer that is sometimes bordered or followed by a bulla.

(Cutaneous Diphtheria, NCI Thesaurus)