Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nylon-eating bacterium

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

Syllables: ny-lon-eat-ing bac-teri-um
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the strain Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens KI72 of bacteria that can digest certain by-products of nylon 6 manufacture using the enzyme nylonase.

Inflected Forms

nylon-eating bacteria (plural)

Questions

What does nylon-eating bacterium mean?: Any of the strain Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens KI72 of bacteria that can digest certain by-products of nylon 6 manufacture using the enzyme nylonase.

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