bacterioid

1. 1.

   resembling bacteria

   Synonymsbacteroidalbacteroidbacterioidal

Questions about bacterioid

What does bacterioid mean?

bacterioid means "resembling bacteria".

How many syllables are in bacterioid?

bacterioid has 4 syllables and divides as bac-te-ri-oid under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bacterioid?

Close synonyms include bacteroidal, bacteroid, bacterioidal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.