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rhodococcus

noun

rhodococcus is a noun meaning “Any bacterium of the genus Rhodococcus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-O-D-O-C-O-C-C-U-S, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rhodococcus is rhodococci.

What does rhodococcus mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any bacterium of the genus Rhodococcus.

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

Forms of rhodococcus

  • rhodococci plural

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

How common is rhodococcus?

Rhodococcus appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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 rhodococcus come from?

From Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “red”) + Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, berry”). By surface analysis, rhodo- + -coccus.

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