GENUS CHLAMYDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Chlamydia mean? 

• GENUS CHLAMYDIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS CHLAMYDIA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: disease-causing parasites

  Familiarity information: GENUS CHLAMYDIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CHLAMYDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: disease-causing parasites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Chlamydia" is a kind of...):

bacteria genus (a genus of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "genus Chlamydia"):

chlamydia (coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals; cause infections of eyes and lungs and genitourinary tract)

Holonyms ("genus Chlamydia" is a member of...):

Chlamydiaceae; family Chlamydiaceae (Gram-negative parasites in warm-blooded vertebrates)

 Context examples 

A Gram-negative bacterium in the genus Chlamydia.

(Chlamydia trachomatis, NCI Thesaurus)