neisseria gonorrhoeae

1. 1.

   the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea

   Synonymsgonococcus

   Broaderbacteria

Questions about neisseria gonorrhoeae

What does neisseria gonorrhoeae mean?

neisseria gonorrhoeae means "the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea".

What is another word for neisseria gonorrhoeae?

Close synonyms include gonococcus. 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 neisseria gonorrhoeae a common word?

neisseria gonorrhoeae 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.