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purple sulfur bacterium

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English

Syllables
pur-ple -sul-fur bac-teri-um
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any gammaproteobacterium of the order Chromatiales.

Etymology

purple (“color”) + sulfur bacterium

Inflected Forms

purple sulfur bacteria (plural)

Questions

What does purple sulfur bacterium mean?
Any gammaproteobacterium of the order Chromatiales.
Where does purple sulfur bacterium come from?
purple (“color”) + sulfur bacterium

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