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chlamydial

adjective

chlamydial is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to or caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-L-A-M-Y-D-I-A-L, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does chlamydial mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, pertaining to or caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of chlamydial

  • more chlamydial comparative
  • most chlamydial superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is chlamydial?

Chlamydial appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does chlamydial come from?

From chlamydia + -al.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).