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13 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis
originMorphologically a compound of strepto- + -coccus. They grow in chains or pairs, thus the name — from Ancient Greek στρεπτός (streptós, “twisted, pliant”), like a chain. Compare the genus name Streptococcus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- ectoprocts 16
- ectoproct 15
- proseccos 15
- prosecco 14
- octopuses 13
- stuccoers 13
- coccous 13
- cocottes 12
- corpuses 12
- crocuses 12
- crosscut 12
- outcrops 12