botulinum

Questions about botulinum

What does botulinum mean?

botulinum means "anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism".

How many syllables are in botulinum?

botulinum has 4 syllables and divides as bo-tu-li-num 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 botulinum?

Close synonyms include botulinus, Clostridium botulinum. 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 botulinum a common word?

botulinum 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.