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Koch

UK/kəʊk/ US/koʊk/ uncommon

noun

1.

German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910)

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Borrowed from German Koch (“cook”), an occupational surname. Doublet of Cook and Kok.

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