mycoplasma
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1. any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria, |
| definition | : | a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | pleuropneumonialike organism, pplo, |
| definition | : | a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus mycoplasma, |
| definition | : | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae (noun.animal) |
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