Penicillium

Definition: Penicillium

Penicillium

Noun

1. Genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin.

Specialty Definitions: Penicillium

Domain	Definitions
Health	A mitosporic Trichocomaceae fungal genus that develops fruiting organs resembling a broom. When identified, teleomorphs include Eupenicillium and Talaromyces. Several species (but especially Penicillium chrysogenum) are sources of the antibiotic penicillin. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Penicillium

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

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Penicillium or bread mold is a genus of fungus that includes:

Penicillium notatus which produces penicillin
Penicillium glaucum used in making gorgonzola
Penicillium candida used in making Brie cheese and Camembert cheese
Penicillium roqueforti used in making Roquefort and Danish Blue cheese

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Penicillium."

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Synonym: Penicillium

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

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Crosswords: Penicillium

English words defined with "Penicillium": Fulvicin ♦ genus Penicillium, griseofulvin ♦ penicillin. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Penicillium": Citrinin ♦ Gliocladium, Gliotoxin, Glucose Oxidase ♦ Ochratoxins ♦ Patulin, Penicillic Acid, Penicillium chrysogenum, Pyrrolnitrin. (references)

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

Spanish (penicillium).

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Commercial Usage: Penicillium

Domain	Title
Books	Advances in Penicillium and Aspergillus Systematics (NATO Asi Series A, Life Sciences, Vol 102) (reference) Genus Penicillium and Its Telemorphic States Eupenicillium and Tala Romyces (reference) Integration of Modern Taxonomic Methods For Penicillium and Aspergillus Classification (reference) Laboratory Guide to Common Penicillium Species (reference) Modern Concepts in Penicillium and Aspergillus Classification (NATO Asi Series A, Life Sciences, Vol 185) (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Penicillium

"Penicillium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Penicillium" is used about 13 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%	13	97,576

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Expressions: Penicillium

Expressions using "Penicillium": genus Penicillium ♦ Penicillium chrysogenum. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Penicillium

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
penicillium	120
aspergillus penicillium	10
notatum penicillium	8
mold penicillium	6
penicillium chrysogenum	6
penicillium sp	6
penicillium roqueforti	5
citrinum penicillium	4
penicillium species	4
in penicillium soil	3
marneffei penicillium	3
penicillium picture	3
glaucum penicillium	2
image penicillium	2
expansum penicillium	2
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Modern Translations: Penicillium

Language		Translations for "Penicillium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		�'黴 (blue mold), �'かび (blue mold). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あおかび (blue mold). (various references)

Pig Latin		enicilliumpay

Spanish		penicillium. (various references)

Ukranian		пеніцил. (various references)
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Derivations: Penicillium

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Penicillium": penicilliums. (additional references)
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Anagrams: Penicillium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-p-u"
	-3 letters: illinium, illumine.
	-4 letters: milline, mullein, nucelli, penicil.
	-5 letters: cilium, illume, inclip, leucin, limnic, limuli, lineup, lumpen, lupine, micell, milieu, mullen, neumic, nielli, nuclei, pencil, pileum, pilule, plenum, pumice, unclip, unpile.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-p-u"
	+1 letter: penicilliums.
	+4 letters: multidiscipline.
	+5 letters: multidisciplines.
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