Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun corynebacterium_diphtheriae
1 sense of corynebacterium diphtheriae
Sense 1
Corynebacterium diphtheriae, C. diphtheriae, Klebs-Loeffler bacillus -- (a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria)
=> corynebacterium -- (any species of the genus Corynebacterium)