Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pleuropneumonia-like organism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

Syllables: pleu-rop-neu-mo-ni-a--like or-gan-ism
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

27

Letters

10

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a number of mycoplasma bacteria similar in colonial morphology and filterability to the causative agent (Mycoplasma sp.) of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia.

Inflected Forms

pleuropneumonia-like organisms (plural)

Synonyms

PPLO

Questions

What does pleuropneumonia-like organism mean?: Any of a number of mycoplasma bacteria similar in colonial morphology and filterability to the causative agent (Mycoplasma sp.) of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia.

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