LACTOBACILLUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: lactobacilli

Meaning:

A Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that produces lactic acid (especially in milk)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lactobacillus" 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 "lactobacillus"):

acidophilus; Lactobacillus acidophilus (a bacterium that is used to make yogurt and to supplement probiotics)

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

genus Lactobacillus (type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae)