say it: an-ur-OH-bik
anaerobic is an adjective meaning "living or active in the absence of free oxygen". It carries 2 recorded senses.
living or active in the absence of free oxygen
“anaerobic bacteria”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anaerobic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.