bacteroidal

1. 1.

   resembling bacteria

   Synonymsbacteroidbacterioidalbacterioid

Questions about bacteroidal

What does bacteroidal mean?

bacteroidal means "resembling bacteria".

How many syllables are in bacteroidal?

bacteroidal has 4 syllables: bac-te-roi-dal. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for bacteroidal?

Close synonyms include bacteroid, bacterioidal, bacterioid. 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 bacteroidal a common word?

bacteroidal 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.