legionella pneumophilia

1. 1.

   the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease

   Synonymslegionella

   Broaderbacteria

Questions about legionella pneumophilia

What does legionella pneumophilia mean?

legionella pneumophilia means "the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease".

What is another word for legionella pneumophilia?

Close synonyms include legionella. 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 legionella pneumophilia a common word?

legionella pneumophilia 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.