agrobacterium
noun
agrobacterium is a noun meaning “A soil bacterium, of the genus Agrobacterium, which can fix nitrogen, and causes the formation of crown galls in plants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-G-R-O-B-A-C-T-E-R-I-U-M, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of agrobacterium is agrobacteria.
What does agrobacterium mean?
noun
- 1
A soil bacterium, of the genus Agrobacterium, which can fix nitrogen, and causes the formation of crown galls in plants.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of agrobacterium
- agrobacteria plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is agrobacterium?
Agrobacterium appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Agrobacterium in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense soil bacterium of the genus Agrobacterium:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | agrobactéria |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does agrobacterium come from?
Borrowed from taxonomic name Agrobacterium. By surface analysis, agro- + bacterium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).