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bifidobacterium

noun

bifidobacterium is a noun meaning “Any bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-I-F-I-D-O-B-A-C-T-E-R-I-U-M, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of bifidobacterium is bifidobacteria.

What does bifidobacterium mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of bifidobacterium

  • bifidobacteria plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is bifidobacterium?

Bifidobacterium appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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).

Where does bifidobacterium come from?

From the genus name.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).