| NOUN | animal | mycoplasma | any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen |
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| Meaning | Any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection. | |
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| Member of | genus Mycoplasma | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae |
| Narrower | pleuropneumonialike organism, PPLO | A mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans |
| Broader | eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria | A large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls |
| Spanish | micoplasma, mycoplasma | |
| Catalan | micoplasma | |
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