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SHIGELLA

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

1. rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon

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

• SHIGELLA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

shiga bacillus; Shigella dysentariae (a bacillus that causes dysentery)

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

genus Shigella (a genus of bacteria)

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