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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A species of gram-negative bacteria of the family acetobacteraceae found in flowers and fruits. Cells are ellipsoidal to rod-shaped and straight or slightly curved. (references) |
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Acetobacter are of particular importance commercially, because a) acetobacter are used in the production of vinegar (intentionally converting the ethanol in the wine to acetic acid), and because b) acetobacter can destroy wine which it infects by producing excessive amounts of acetic acid or ethyl acetate, both of which can render the wine unpalatable.
The growth of acetobacter in wine can be supressed through effective sanitation, by complete exclusion of air from wine in storage, and by the use of moderate amounts of sulfur dioxide in the wine as a preservative.
Acetobacter can be easily distinguished in the laboratory by their growth of colonies on a medium containing about 7% ethanol, and enough calcium carbonate to render the medium partially opaque. When Acetobacter colonies form enough acetic acid from the ethanol, the calcium carbonate around the colonies dissolves, forming a very distinct clear zone.
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Crosswords: ACETOBACTER |
| Specialty definitions using "ACETOBACTER": acetic ether ♦ ethylacetate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ACETOBACTER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (acetobacter, vinegar bacteria). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
acetobacter | 14 |
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| Language | Translations for "ACETOBACTER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | eddikesyrebakterier (acetic acid bacteria, acetic ferments for making vinegar, vinegar bacteria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | azijnzuurbacteriën (acetic acid bacteria, acetic ferments for making vinegar, vinegar bacteria), acetobacter (acetic acid bacteria, vinegar bacteria, vinegar bacteriaAcetobacter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | acétobacter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Essigbakterien (vinegar bacteria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | οξοβακτηρίδιο (vinegar bacteria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | acetobatterio (vinegar bacteria), Mycoderma aceti (vinegar bacteria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acetobacteray acetobacter (vinegar bacteria). (various references) acetobácter (vinegar bacteria), mycoderma aceti (vinegar bacteria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Mycoderma aceti. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-e-e-o-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: bracteate. | |
-3 letters: acerbate, cabretta, cocreate, trabeate. | |
-4 letters: abetter, abettor, abreact, accrete, acerate, acetate, acrobat, baccate, bearcat, beretta, cabaret, catboat, coerect, ocreate, tabaret, taboret, teacart, toccata, toccate. | |
-5 letters: abater, abator, aerate, aerobe, aortae, baccae, batter, beater, berate, better, bettor, boater, borate, carate, cerate, coatee, coater, coerce, cottae, cottar, cotter, create, ecarte, obtect, ocreae, rabato, rebate. | |
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