diplococcus pneumoniae

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   bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans

   Synonymspneumococcus

   Broaderdiplococcus

Questions about diplococcus pneumoniae

What does diplococcus pneumoniae mean?

diplococcus pneumoniae means "bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans".

What is another word for diplococcus pneumoniae?

Close synonyms include pneumococcus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diplococcus pneumoniae a common word?

diplococcus pneumoniae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.