bacteriophagous

1. 1.

   of or relating to bacteriophages

   Synonymsbacteriophagic

Questions about bacteriophagous

What does bacteriophagous mean?

bacteriophagous means "of or relating to bacteriophages".

How many syllables are in bacteriophagous?

bacteriophagous has 6 syllables and divides as bac-te-ri-o-pha-gous 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 bacteriophagous?

Close synonyms include bacteriophagic. 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 bacteriophagous a common word?

bacteriophagous 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.