Word.ws English Dictionary

ruminococcus

ruminococcus noun: any bacterium of the genus Ruminococcus.

Noun

ruminococcus (plural ruminococci)

  1. Any bacterium of the genus Ruminococcus.

Forms of ruminococcus

pluralruminococci

Questions about ruminococcus

What does ruminococcus mean?
Ruminococcus means any bacterium of the genus Ruminococcus.
What part of speech is ruminococcus?
Ruminococcus is a noun.
What is the plural of ruminococcus?
The plural of ruminococcus is ruminococci.

Words near ruminococcus in the dictionary

  1. ruminitis
  2. rumino
  3. ruminococcal
  4. ruminococci
  5. ruminococcin
  6. ruminococcus
  7. ruminoreticula
  8. ruminoreticular
  9. ruminoreticulum
  10. ruminotype
  11. ruminotypes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ruminococcus (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ruminococcus.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ruminococcus. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.