Erwinia
Translingual
![](../I/m/Fire_blight_(Erwinia_amylovora)_of_pear.png)
Fire blight (infection by Erwinia amylovora) on a pear tree
Etymology
From English Erwin (“a male given name”) (after US phytobacteriologist Erwin Frink Smith) + -ia.
Proper noun
Erwinia f
Hypernyms
- (genus): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom; Proteobacteria - phylum; Gammaproteobacteria - class; Enterobacteriales - order; Enterobacteriaceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Erwinia amylovora (fire blight), Erwinia aphidicola, Erwinia billingiae, Erwinia mallotivora, Erwinia papayae, Erwinia persicina, Erwinia psidii, Erwinia pyrifoliae, Erwinia rhapontici, Erwinia toletana, Erwinia tracheiphila (species)
- Candidatus Erwinia dacicola (species, incompletely described)
Further reading
Erwinia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Erwinia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Erwinia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons- Erwinia at the Catalogue of Life
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