spirochaetaceae

Questions about spirochaetaceae

What does spirochaetaceae mean?

spirochaetaceae means "large coarsely spiral bacteria; free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters".

How many syllables are in spirochaetaceae?

spirochaetaceae has 7 syllables and divides as spi-ro-cha-e-ta-ce-ae 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 spirochaetaceae?

Close synonyms include family Spirochaetaceae. 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 spirochaetaceae a common word?

spirochaetaceae 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.