Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

firmicute

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fir-mi-cute
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any bacterium of the phylum Firmicutes.

Example Sentences

"In contrast, all the interactions in this motif are conserved in several distantly related genomes such as the beta-proteobacterium B. pertussis and the firmicute D. hafniense (fig. 2b)."
"Type C ("clostridial") is found in the firmicute bacterium Clostridium, the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium, and also in the archaeon Methanosarcina."
"2013, Dietrich H. Nies, 5: RND Efflux Pumps for Metal Cations, Edward W. Yu, Qijing Zhang, Melissa H. Brown, Stephanie Baugh (editors), Microbial Efflux Pumps: Current Research, page 110, Exceptions were sequence CRE-06266 from the worm Caenorhabditis remanei and ZP_01666833 from the Gram-positive firmicute Thermosinus carboxidovorans."

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Firmicutes.

Word Breakdown

Root: Firmicutes

Inflected Forms

firmicutes (plural)

Derived Forms

firmicutal

Questions

What does firmicute mean?: Any bacterium of the phylum Firmicutes.
Where does firmicute come from?: Borrowed from translingual Firmicutes.

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