streptobacillus

1. 1.

   any of various rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria

   Broaderrod

Other forms of streptobacillus

plural

streptobacilluses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about streptobacillus

What does streptobacillus mean?

streptobacillus means "any of various rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria".

How many syllables are in streptobacillus?

streptobacillus has 5 syllables and divides as strep-to-ba-cil-lus 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.