mycobacteria

English Thesaurus

1. rod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseases (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria,
definition	:	a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	mycobacterium tuberculosis, tubercle bacillus,
definition	:	cause of tuberculosis (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	leprosy bacillus, mycobacterium leprae,
definition	:	cause of leprosy (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus mycobacterium,
definition	:	nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria (noun.animal)