ventner

1. 1.

   United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)

   SynonymsCraig VentnerJ. Craig Ventner

   Broadergeneticist

Other forms of ventner

plural

ventners·

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 ventner

What does ventner mean?

ventner means "United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)".

How many syllables are in ventner?

ventner has 2 syllables: vent-ner. The stress falls on "vent". In IPA it is /ˈvɛntnɚ/.

What is another word for ventner?

Close synonyms include Craig Ventner, J. Craig Ventner. 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 ventner a common word?

ventner 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.