noun
aerobic bacteria (some of which produce the antibiotic streptomycin)
• Hypernyms: ↑actinomycete
• Hyponyms: ↑Streptomyces erythreus, ↑Streptomyces griseus, ↑potato scab bacteria, ↑Streptomyces scabies
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Streptomyces
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/strep'teuh muy"seez/, n., pl. streptomyces. Bacteriol.
any of several aerobic bacteria of the genus Streptomyces, certain species of which produce antibiotics.
[ < NL (1943), equiv. to strepto- STREPTO- + Gk mýkes mushroom, fungus]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.