probiotic bacterium

1. 1.

   a beneficial bacterium found in the intestinal tract of healthy mammals; often considered to be a plant

   Synonymsprobioticprobiotic microfloraprobiotic flora

   Broaderbacteria

   Narroweracidophilus

Questions about probiotic bacterium

What does probiotic bacterium mean?

probiotic bacterium means "a beneficial bacterium found in the intestinal tract of healthy mammals; often considered to be a plant".

What is another word for probiotic bacterium?

Close synonyms include probiotic, probiotic microflora, probiotic flora. 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 probiotic bacterium a common word?

probiotic bacterium 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.