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YERSINIA PESTIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bacillus bacterium that causes the plague; aerosolized bacteria can be used as a bioweapon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Yersinia pestis" is a kind of...):
B; bacillus (aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil)
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