大腸菌

だいちょうきん

e. coli

Also:colon bacterium

What does 大腸菌 mean?

大腸菌 is a Japanese noun meaning e. coli in English. It can also be translated as colon bacterium depending on context. It is written as 大腸菌 in kanji, だいちょうきん in hiragana, and daichoukin in romaji. This word is part of JLPT N1 vocabulary.