c. psittaci

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   bacteria responsible for the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia

   SynonymsChlamydia psittaci

   Broaderchlamydia

Questions about c. psittaci

What does c. psittaci mean?

c. psittaci means "bacteria responsible for the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia".

What is another word for c. psittaci?

Close synonyms include Chlamydia psittaci. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is c. psittaci a common word?

c. psittaci is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.