clostridium perfringens

English Thesaurus

1. anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweapon (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria,
definition	:	a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bioarm, biological weapon, bioweapon,
definition	:	any weapon usable in biological warfare (noun.artifact)

member meronym	:	genus clostridium,
definition	:	anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes; nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung (noun.animal)