streptococcus

1. 1.

   spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis

   Synonymsstreptococcistrep

   Broadereubacteria

   Part ofgenus Streptococcus

Other forms of streptococcus

plural

streptococci

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about streptococcus

What does streptococcus mean?

streptococcus means "spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis".

How many syllables are in streptococcus?

streptococcus has 4 syllables: strep-to-coc-cus. The stress falls on "coc". In IPA it is /ˌstɹɛptəˈkɔkəs/.

What is another word for streptococcus?

Close synonyms include streptococci, strep. 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 streptococcus a common word?

streptococcus 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.

What rhymes with streptococcus?

2 words rhyme with streptococcus. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.