lactobacillus

Questions about lactobacillus

What does lactobacillus mean?

lactobacillus means "a Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that produces lactic acid (especially in milk)".

How many syllables are in lactobacillus?

lactobacillus has 5 syllables: lac-to-ba-cil-lus. The stress falls on "cil". In IPA it is /ˌlæktoʊbəˈsɪləs/.

Is lactobacillus a common word?

lactobacillus 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.

What rhymes with lactobacillus?

1 word rhymes with lactobacillus. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lactobacillus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.