genus calymmatobacterium

1. 1.

   a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale

   SynonymsCalymmatobacterium

   Broaderbacteria

Questions about genus calymmatobacterium

What does genus calymmatobacterium mean?

genus calymmatobacterium means "a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale".

What is another word for genus calymmatobacterium?

Close synonyms include Calymmatobacterium. 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 genus calymmatobacterium a common word?

genus calymmatobacterium 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.