true bacteria vs chlamydia

chlamydia vs true bacteria

true bacteria and chlamydia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
true bacteria	Yes	No	No	No
chlamydia	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, chlamydia is a hyponym of true bacteria; that is, chlamydia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than true bacteria:

true bacteria: a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
chlamydia: coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals; cause infections of eyes and lungs and genitourinary tract

Other hyponyms of true bacteria include B, bacillus, cocci, coccus, coccobacillus, spirilla, spirillum, clostridia, clostridium, botulinum, botulinus, Clostridium botulinum, clostridium perfringens, blue-green algae, cyanobacteria, phototrophic bacteria, phototropic bacteria, pseudomonad, xanthomonad, nitric bacteria, nitrobacteria, nitrosobacteria, nitrous bacteria, thiobacillus, spirillum, vibrio, vibrion, corynebacterium, listeria, enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria, entric, endospore-forming bacteria, rickettsia, mycoplasma, actinomycete, actinomyces, mycobacteria, mycobacterium, gliding bacteria, myxobacter, myxobacteria, myxobacterium, slime bacteria, lactobacillus, strep, streptococci, streptococcus, spirochaete, spirochete.

true bacteria (noun)	chlamydia (noun)
a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella	coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals; cause infections of eyes and lungs and genitourinary tract
	a sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia

Difference between true bacteria and chlamydia

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