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 and divides as en-te-ro-bac-te-ri-a 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 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.