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

1 sense of coliphage

Sense 1
coliphage -- (a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli)
       => bacteriophage, phage -- (a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria; "phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria")