myxobacterium

Questions about myxobacterium

What does myxobacterium mean?

myxobacterium means "bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste".

How many syllables are in myxobacterium?

myxobacterium has 6 syllables and divides as myx-o-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 myxobacterium?

Close synonyms include myxobacteria, myxobacter, gliding bacteria, slime bacteria. 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 myxobacterium a common word?

myxobacterium 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.