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

1 sense of calymmatobacterium

Sense 1
Calymmatobacterium, genus Calymmatobacterium -- (a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale)
       => 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)