FAMILY LACTOBACILLACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Lactobacillaceae mean? 

• FAMILY LACTOBACILLACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY LACTOBACILLACEAE has 1 sense:

1. lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens; bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid

  Familiarity information: FAMILY LACTOBACILLACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY LACTOBACILLACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens; bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Lactobacillaceae; family Lactobacteriaceae; Lactobacillaceae; Lactobacteriaceae

Hypernyms ("family Lactobacillaceae" is a kind of...):

bacteria family (a family of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "family Lactobacillaceae"):

genus Lactobacillus (type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae)

genus Diplococcus; genus Streptococcus (a genus of bacteria)

Holonyms ("family Lactobacillaceae" is a member of...):

kingdom Monera; kingdom Prokaryotae; Monera; Prokayotae (prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions)

 Context examples 

A genus of Gram positive, cocci shaped, lactic acid bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Lactobacillaceae.

(Pediococcus, NCI Thesaurus)