FAMILY ENTEROBACTERIACEAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Enterobacteriaceae mean? 

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

1. a large family of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ENTEROBACTERIACEAE (noun)

Meaning:

A large family of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Enterobacteriaceae; family Enterobacteriaceae

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

bacteria family (a family of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "family Enterobacteriaceae"):

Aerobacter; genus Aerobacter (aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature)

enteric bacteria; enterics; enterobacteria; entric (rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals)

genus Escherichia; genus Klebsiella; genus Salmonella (a genus of bacteria)

genus Serratia; Serratia (a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod)

genus Shigella; genus Erwinia (a genus of bacteria)

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

Eubacteriales; order Eubacteriales (one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms; some are motile; in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes)