mycoplasma

From translingual Mycoplasma, from Latin, from Ancient Greek μυκής (mukḗs, “fungus”) + πλάσμα (plásma, “-shaped”). Equivalent to myco- +‎ plasma.

mycoplasma (countable and uncountable, plural mycoplasmas or mycoplasmata)

1. Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae
   • 2007 January 5, Katie Zezima, “More Rhode Island Schools Closed in Disease Outbreak”, in New York Times‎:

     Officials are investigating whether the illness was caused by mycoplasma, a common bacteria known as walking pneumonia.

   • 2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 4 January 2017, page 83:

     It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

mycoplasma ?

1. (bacteriology) mycoplasma