anaerobe

1. 1.

   an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live

   Broaderorganism

   Narrowerobligate anaerobe

Other forms of anaerobe

plural

anaerobes·

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 anaerobe

What does anaerobe mean?

anaerobe means "an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live".

How many syllables are in anaerobe?

anaerobe has 3 syllables: an-ae-robe. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈænɚˌoʊb/.

Is anaerobe a common word?

anaerobe is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.