enterobacteria

Other forms of enterobacteria

plural

enterobacterias·

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.

Questions about enterobacteria

What does enterobacteria mean?

enterobacteria means "rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals".

How many syllables are in enterobacteria?

enterobacteria has 7 syllables: en-te-ro-bac-te-ri-a. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for enterobacteria?

Close synonyms include enteric bacteria, enterics, entric. 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 enterobacteria a common word?

enterobacteria 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.