pus-forming bacteria

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   bacteria that produce pus

   Broaderbacteria

Questions about pus-forming bacteria

What does pus-forming bacteria mean?

pus-forming bacteria means "bacteria that produce pus".

Is pus-forming bacteria a common word?

pus-forming bacteria 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.