Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cerein

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cere-in
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a group of bacteriocins produced by various strains of the bacterium Bacillus cereus.

Etymology

From cereus + -in.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cereus

Inflected Forms

cereins (plural)

Questions

What does cerein mean?: Any of a group of bacteriocins produced by various strains of the bacterium Bacillus cereus.
Where does cerein come from?: From cereus + -in.

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