Associations to the word «Pneumococcus»

Wiktionary

PNEUMOCOCCUS, noun. A gram-positive bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, that causes pneumonia and other infectious diseases

Dictionary definition

PNEUMOCOCCUS, noun. Bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats