PSEUDOMONAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pseudomonad mean? 

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

1. bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSEUDOMONAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pseudomonad" 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 "pseudomonad"):

Pseudomonas solanacearum; ring rot bacteria (causes brown rot in tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc)

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

genus Pseudomonas; Pseudomonas (type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae)