vibrio

Questions about vibrio

What does vibrio mean?

vibrio means "curved rodlike motile bacterium".

How many syllables are in vibrio?

vibrio has 3 syllables and divides as vi-bri-o 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 vibrio?

Close synonyms include vibrion. 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 vibrio a common word?

vibrio 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.