pleuropneumonialike organism

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   a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans

   SynonymsPPLO

   Broadermycoplasma

Questions about pleuropneumonialike organism

What does pleuropneumonialike organism mean?

pleuropneumonialike organism means "a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans".

What is another word for pleuropneumonialike organism?

Close synonyms include PPLO. 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 pleuropneumonialike organism a common word?

pleuropneumonialike organism 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.