Translingual

Proper noun

Neisseriales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Betaproteobacteria – aerobic and Gram-negative bacteria that are gut flora in mammal, some known to cause diseases in humans: gonorrhea and meningitis.

Hypernyms

• (order): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom; Proteobacteria - phylum; Betaproteobacteria - class

Hyponyms

• (order): Chromobacteriaceae, Neisseriaceae - families

References

• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521