thiobacillus
noun
thiobacillus is a noun meaning “Any bacillus that is capable of metabolising sulfur, especially members of the genus Thiobacillus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-I-O-B-A-C-I-L-L-U-S, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thiobacillus is thiobacilli.
What does thiobacillus mean?
noun
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Any bacillus that is capable of metabolising sulfur, especially members of the genus Thiobacillus
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thiobacillus
- thiobacilli plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thiobacillus?
Thiobacillus appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 thiobacillus come from?
From thio- + bacillus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).