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meningococci

meningococci is the plural of meningococcus.

Meaning of meningococcus

Noun

meningococcus (plural meningococci)

  1. A pathogenic bacterium (Neisseria meningitidis), common cause of cerebrospinal meningitis

Questions about meningococci

What is meningococci the plural of?
Meningococci is the plural of meningococcus.

Words near meningococci in the dictionary

  1. meningococcaemic
  2. meningococcal
  3. meningococcemia
  4. meningococcemias
  5. meningococcemic
  6. meningococci
  7. meningococcic
  8. meningococcus
  9. meningocortical
  10. meningoencephalic
  11. meningoencephalitic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meningococci (page history and authors); meningococcus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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