Streptococcus

See also: streptococcus

Translingual

Etymology

From English strepto- (“shaped like a twisted chain”) +‎ -coccus (“spherical bacteria”), from Ancient Greek στρεπτός (streptós, “twisted, pliant”) +‎ κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed”), for the bacteria grow in chains or pairs.

Proper noun

Streptococcus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Streptococcaceae – streptococcus bacteria.

Synonyms

• Strep., Str.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Posibacteria – subkingdom; Bacillota – phylum; Bacilli – class; Lactobacillales – order; Streptococcaceae – family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Streptococcus pyogenes – type species; Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus equinus, Streptococcus gallolyticus, Streptococcus infantarius, Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus pneumoniae – selected species

Derived terms

• Streptococcaceae

References

• Streptococcus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Streptococcus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Streptococcus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Streptococcus in the Genome Taxonomy Database