shigella

English Thesaurus

1. rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria, entric,
definition	:	rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	shiga bacillus, shigella dysentariae,
definition	:	a bacillus that causes dysentery (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus shigella,
definition	:	a genus of bacteria (noun.animal)