actinomycete

1. 1.

   any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales

   Broadereubacteria

   Narrowerstreptomyces

   Part ofActinomycetales

   animal

Other forms of actinomycete

plural

actinomycetes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about actinomycete

What does actinomycete mean?

actinomycete means "any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales".

How many syllables are in actinomycete?

actinomycete has 5 syllables: ac-ti-no-my-cete. The stress falls on "no".

Is actinomycete a common word?

actinomycete is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.