heterofermentative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That undergoes fermentation to produce more than one product, e.g. both alcohol and lactic acid.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- English fermentative English heterofermentative From hetero- + fermentative.