bacterialess
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
without bacteria.
Example Sentences
- "You may have it bacterialess through one filter and 50 or 100 coming away in another one side by side."
- "As 606 has been succeeded by 1001, or something to that effect, so have bacterial products been succeeded by bacterialess products known as "Phylacogens"."
- "A bacterialess earth and a bacterialess ocean would soon be uninhabitable either for plants or animals; conversely, it is probable that bacteria-like organisms prepared both the earth and the ocean for the further evolution of plants and animals, and that life passed through a very long bacterial stage."
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek βακτηρία (baktēría) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion) Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor. New Latin bactēriabor. English bacteria Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English bacterialess From bacteria + -less.