''Rhodococcus phenolicus'' is a bacterium species in the genus ''

Rhodococcus ''Rhodococcus'' is a genus of aerobic, nonsporulating, nonmotile Gram-positive bacteria closely related to ''Mycobacterium'' and ''Corynebacterium''. While a few species are pathogenic, most are benign, and have been found to thrive in a broad ...

''. ''Phenolicus'' comes from

Neo-Latin Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...

noun ''phenol'' -''olis'',

phenol Phenol (also known as carbolic acid, phenolic acid, or benzenol) is an aromatic organic compound with the molecular formula . It is a white crystalline solid that is volatile and can catch fire. The molecule consists of a phenyl group () ...

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Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

masculine gender In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...

suff. -''icus'', suffix used in adjectives with the sense of belonging to; Neo-Latin masculine gender adjective ''phenolicus'', belonging to phenol. This species is able to degrade phenol as sole carbon source.

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Type strain of ''Rhodococcus phenolicus'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Mycobacteriales Bacteria described in 2006 {{actinobacteria-stub