mycobacterium

Questions about mycobacterium

What does mycobacterium mean?

mycobacterium means "rod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseases".

How many syllables are in mycobacterium?

mycobacterium has 6 syllables and divides as my-co-bac-te-ri-um 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 mycobacterium?

Close synonyms include mycobacteria. 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 mycobacterium a common word?

mycobacterium 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.