halobacter

1. 1.

   halophiles in saline environments such as the Dead Sea or salt flats

   Synonymshalobacteriahalobacterium

   Broaderhalophile

Other forms of halobacter

plural

halobacters·

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 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: ha-lo-bac-ter. The stress falls on "lo".

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.