lactobacillaceae

Questions about lactobacillaceae

What does lactobacillaceae mean?

lactobacillaceae means "lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens; bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid".

How many syllables are in lactobacillaceae?

lactobacillaceae has 7 syllables and divides as lac-to-ba-cil-la-ce-ae 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 lactobacillaceae?

Close synonyms include family Lactobacillaceae, Lactobacteriaceae, family Lactobacteriaceae. 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 lactobacillaceae a common word?

lactobacillaceae 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.