Enterococcus

See also: enterococcus

Translingual

Enterococcus faecalis

Etymology

From English entero- (“of the intestines”) +‎ -coccus (“spherical bacteria”), from Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “gut, bowel”) +‎ κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed”).

Proper noun

Enterococcus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Enterococcaceae – gram-positive bacteria that resemble streptococci and were formerly classified with them.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Posibacteria – subkingdom; Bacillota – phylum; Bacilli – class; Lactobacillales – order; Enterococcaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Enterococcus faecalis - type species; Enterococcus casseliflavus, Enterococcus faecium - selected other species

Related terms

• Streptococcus

Descendants

• VRE

References

• Enterococcus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Enterococcus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Enterococcus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Enterococcus at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
• Enterococcus in the Genome Taxonomy Database