Streptococcus

See also: streptococcus

Translingual

Streptococcus pyogenes

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 – the 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
• Streptococcus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Streptococcus in the Genome Taxonomy Database