peritrichous

1. 1.

   covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella

   Similarcovered

   bacteria

Questions about peritrichous

What does peritrichous mean?

peritrichous means "covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella".

How many syllables are in peritrichous?

peritrichous has 4 syllables and divides as pe-ri-tri-chous 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.

Is peritrichous a common word?

peritrichous 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.