9-Letter Words Starting S & Ending UM

• (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and a class

• A pattern of branching, similar to dichotomous branching, where the axis or stem is morphologically made up of a series of superposed branches imitating a simple stem.

• a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers)

• a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations

• any of various small sugary candies

• In Ancient Rome, a place where sacred objects were kept, either in a temple (the adytum) or in a house (holding the penates)

• The area surrounding the altar of a Christian church; the sanctuary or piscina. Sometimes specifically a drain directly to the earth, perhaps including reference to a basin, for washing vessels from consecration.

• The complex sacrum of any bird.

• Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc

• spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water

• any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form