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GENUS LISTERIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Listeria" is a kind of...):
bacteria genus (a genus of bacteria)
Meronyms (members of "genus Listeria"):
listeria (any species of the genus Listeria)
Holonyms ("genus Listeria" is a member of...):
Corynebacteriaceae; family Corynebacteriaceae (a large family of mostly Gram-positive and aerobic and nonmotile rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales)
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