Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun legionella_pneumophilia

1 sense of legionella pneumophilia

Sense 1
Legionella pneumophilia, legionella -- (the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease)
       => bacteria, bacterium -- ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants)