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BOTULINUMS
Definition of BOTULINUMS
Wiktionary has no entry for BOTULINUMS itself. This is its base word, BOTULINUM.
noun
An anaerobic soil bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, that secretes the toxin botulin
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for BOTULINUM.
From Latin botulus (“sausage”) + -īnum.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BOTULINUM · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOTULINUMS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BOTULINUMS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BILMNOSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start BOTULI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found BOTULINUMS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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