BACTERIOPHAGE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a virus that is parasitic in bacteria
   • it uses the bacterium’’s machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria
   Synonym(s)
   • phage (what does phage mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) bacteriophage is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • virus (what does virus mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • coliphage (what does coliphage mean?)
   • typhoid bacteriophage (what does typhoid bacteriophage mean?)