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say it: kohn
cohn is a noun meaning "German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants". It carries one recorded sense.
German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cohn come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.