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: bac-te-ri-oid. The stress falls on "te".

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.

Is bacterioid a common word?

bacterioid 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.