zoonotic

1. 1.

   of or relating to or constituting zoonosis

   “the Ebola virus is believed to be zoonotic”

Questions about zoonotic

What does zoonotic mean?

zoonotic means "of or relating to or constituting zoonosis".

How many syllables are in zoonotic?

zoonotic has 3 syllables and divides as zoo-no-tic 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.

Is zoonotic a common word?

zoonotic 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.