thiobacteria

What does thiobacteria mean?

thiobacteria means "any bacterium of the genus Thiobacillus".

How many syllables are in thiobacteria?

thiobacteria has 6 syllables and divides as thi-o-bac-te-ri-a 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 thiobacteria?

Close synonyms include sulphur bacteria, sulfur 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 thiobacteria a common word?

thiobacteria 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thiobacteria come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.