clostridium

Questions about clostridium

What does clostridium mean?

clostridium means "spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore".

How many syllables are in clostridium?

clostridium has 4 syllables and divides as clo-stri-di-um 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 clostridium?

Close synonyms include clostridia. 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 clostridium a common word?

clostridium 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for clostridium come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.