Translingual

Yersinia pestis, with fluorescent stain

Proper noun

Yersinia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Enterobacteriaceae – certain bacteria hosted especially by rodents, some pathogenic to humans.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Mantidae – the single species Yersinia mexicana.

Hypernyms

• (genus of Enterobacteriaceae): Bacteria - kingdom; Proteobacteria - phylum; Gamma Proteobacteria - class; Enterobacteriales - order; Enterobacteriaceae - family
• (genus of Mantidae): Insecta - class; Dicondylia, Pterygota, Metapterygota, Neoptera - clades; Polyneoptera - supercohort; Dictyoptera - cohort; Mantodea - order; Mantidae - family; Amelinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus of Enterobacteriaceae): Yersinia aldovae, Yersinia aleksiciae, Yersinia bercovieri, Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia entomophaga, Yersinia frederiksenii, Yersinia intermedia, Yersinia kristensenii, Yersinia mollaretii, Yersinia pestis (bubonic plague bacterium), Yersinia philomiragia, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, Yersinia rohdei, Yersinia ruckeri (species)
• (genus of Mantidae): Yersinia mexicana (species)

See also

• Yersiniops

English

Wikispecies

Noun

yersinia ‎(plural yersinias or yersiniae)

1. A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.