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Definition: Lactobacillus |
LactobacillusNoun1. Gram-positive rod-shaped bacteria that produce lactic acid especially in milk. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A genus of gram-positive, microaerophilic, rod-shaped bacteria occurring widely in nature. Its species are also part of the many normal flora of the mouth, intestinal tract, and vagina of many mammals, including humans. Pathogenicity from this genus is rare. (references) |
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Crosswords: Lactobacillus |
| English words defined with "lactobacillus": genus Lactobacillus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lactobacillus": Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | There are no data showing that kaolin-pectin compounds (e.g., Kaopectate*) or lactobacillus slows diarrhea or relieves abdominal cramping. (references) | |
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| "Lactobacillus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lactobacillus" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
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Expressions using "lactobacillus": genus Lactobacillus ♦ Lactobacillus acidophilus ♦ Lactobacillus casei. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
lactobacillus | 193 |
lactobacillus acidophilus | 82 |
farciminis lactobacillus | 28 |
lactobacillus gg | 17 |
lactobacillus bulgaricus | 13 |
lactobacillus plantarum | 11 |
lactobacillus sporogenes | 10 |
lactobacillus casei | 10 |
lactobacillus reuteri | 6 |
lactobacillus salivarius | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "lactobacillus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 乳酸杆菌属. (various references) | |
Danish | lactobacillus (lactobacilleae), lactobacilleae (lactobacilleae), maelkesyrebakterie (lactic ferment, lactobacilleae). (various references) | |
Dutch | lactobacillus (lactobacilleae, streptobacillus), lactobacillen (lactic ferment, lactobacilleae, starter culture), lactobacilleae (lactobacilleae), melkzuurbakterien (lactobacilleae), melkzuurbacterien (lactobacilleae). (various references) | |
Finnish | maitohappobakteeri (lactobacilleae). (various references) | |
French | lactobacilles (lactobacilleae), lactobacillae (lactobacilleae), bacilles lactiques (lactobacilleae). (various references) | |
German | Laktobazillen (lactobacilleae), Lactobacillus (lactobacilleae), Lactobacilleae (lactobacilleae). (various references) | |
Greek | Lactobacillus casei (lactobacillus casei), Lactobacillus acidophilus (lactobacillus acidophilus), Bacillus acidophilus (lactobacillus acidophilus). (various references) | |
Italian | lattabacilli (lactobacilleae), lactobacillus (lactobacilleae), lactobacilleae (lactobacilleae). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "ニル樹脂 (beaver, beefsteak, beer garden, beer hall, before service, behaviour, behaviourism, behind, bibliography, bibliomania, bivouac, chatter mark, Lactobacillus bifidus, vibraphone, vibrato, vinegar, vinyl resin, vinylon, vivid). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "フィズス (Lactobacillus bifidus), "'ズス (Lactobacillus bifidus). (various references) | |
Korean | 산 . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | actobacilluslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lactobacilos (lactobacilleae), lactobacillus (lactobacilleae), lactobacilleae (lactobacilleae). (various references) | |
Spanish | lactobacilos (lactobacilleae), lactobacilleae (lactobacilleae). (various references) | |
Swedish | Lactobacillus (lactobacilleae). (various references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lactobacillus" (pronounced la'ktōbusi"lus) |
| 7 | -b u s i" l u s | bacillus. |
| 4 | -i" l u s | Amaryllis. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, anomalous, atlas, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-i-l-l-l-o-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: acoustical. | |
-4 letters: bicoastal, catabolic. | |
-5 letters: aboulias, aciculas, acoustic, bacillus, bailouts, ballista, basaltic, blastula, bucolics, cabalist, catcalls, cobaltic, localist, locustal, occlusal, sailboat, taboulis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-c-i-l-l-l-o-s-t-u" | |
+5 letters: claustrophobically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 63 74 6F 62 61 63 69 6C 6C 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -.-. - --- -... .- -.-. .. .-.. .-.. ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101111 01100010 01100001 01100011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a c t o b a c i l l u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0063 0074 006F 0062 0061 0063 0069 006C 006C 0075 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46676986816867697578788785 |
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