Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

resistome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-sis-tome
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

All the genes (in a bacterium) that confer resistance to antibiotics

Etymology

From resist + -ome.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: resist

Inflected Forms

resistomes (plural)

Questions

What does resistome mean?: All the genes (in a bacterium) that confer resistance to antibiotics
Where does resistome come from?: From resist + -ome.

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