How many syllables in anthrax?

There are 2 syllables in the word anthrax.

How to pronounce anthrax:

anthrax (noun):: the bacterium causing anthrax; a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia.; an infectious disease of warm-blooded animals (such as cattle and sheep) caused by a spore-forming bacterium (bacillus anthracis), transmissible to humans especially by the handling of infected products (such as wool), and characterized by cutaneous ulcerating nodules or by often fatal lesions in the lungs

anthrax pneumonia

cutaneous anthrax

disease

inhalation anthrax

malignant pustule

pulmonary anthrax

ragsorter's disease

splenic fever

woolsorter's disease

woolsorter's pneumonia

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