halobacter

What does halobacter mean?

halobacter means "halophiles in saline environments such as the Dead Sea or salt flats".

How many syllables are in halobacter?

halobacter has 4 syllables and divides as ha-lo-bac-ter 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 halobacter?

Close synonyms include halobacteria, halobacterium. 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 halobacter a common word?

halobacter 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 halobacter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.