Neurospora

Definition: Neurospora

Neurospora

Noun

1. Genus of fungi with black perithecia used extensively in genetic research; includes some forms with orange spore masses that cause severe damage in bakeries.

Synonym: Neurospora

Synonym: genus Neurospora (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Neurospora

English words defined with "Neurospora": class Pyrenomycetes ♦ genus Neurospora ♦ Pyrenomycetes. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Neurospora": Neurospora crassa. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Neurospora" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (neurospora, Neurospora crassa).

Domain	Title
Books	The Neurospora Compendium: Chromosomal Loci (reference) (more book examples)
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"Neurospora" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neurospora" is used about 3 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 (proper)	100%	3	202,518

Expressions using "Neurospora": genus Neurospora ♦ Neurospora crassa. 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.

Language		Translations for "Neurospora"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		neurospora. (various references)

Dutch		neurospora. (various references)

German		Neurospora. (various references)

Greek		νευρόσπορα. (various references)

Italian		neurospora. (various references)

Pig Latin		eurosporanay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Neurospora. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Neurospora": neurosporas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-o-p-r-r-s-u"
	-3 letters: arenous, arouser, onerous, operons, parures, perrons, persona, pourers, pruners, repours, serrano, snooper, soprano, sporran, spurner, uprears, uproars.
	-4 letters: aprons, arouse, arpens, arseno, nooser, nurser, operas, operon, paeons, pareos, parers, pareus, parous, parser, parson, parure, pauser, perron, person, poorer, pornos, porose, porous, poseur, pourer, proser, pruner, prunes, purser, rapers, rasper, rasure, reason, repour, repros, reruns, rooser, ropers, rouens, rouser, sapour, senora, snarer, snorer, soaper, soarer, sooner, sorner, sourer, sparer, uprear, uproar, uprose, upsoar, urares.
	-5 letters: aeons, apers, apres, apron, arose, arpen, arson, aspen, asper, aures, earns, euros, napes, nares, neaps, nears, noose, nurse, opens, opera, paeon, panes, pareo, parer, pares, pareu, parrs, parse, paseo, pause, peans, pears, peons, pones, poons, pores, porno, porns, poser, pours, praos, prase, praus, presa, proas, prone, prose, proso, prune, psoae, punas, purer, purrs, purse, raper, rapes, rares, raser, reaps, rears, repos, repro, reran, rerun, roans, roars, roose, roper, ropes, rouen, roues, roups, rouse, ruers, runes, saner, sapor, senor, snare, sneap, snoop, snore, sonar, sopor, sorer, spare, spean, spear, spoon, spoor, spore, sprue, spurn, super, supra, surer, surra, urare, urase, ureas, ursae, usnea.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o-o-p-r-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: neurosporas.
	+4 letters: overpersuasion, supererogation, uproariousness.
	+5 letters: counterproposal, overpersuasions, supererogations.
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