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

1 sense of clostridium perfringens

Sense 1
clostridium perfringens -- (anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweapon)
       => eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria -- (a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella)
       => bioweapon, biological weapon, bioarm -- (any weapon usable in biological warfare; "they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon")