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Definition: Pseudomonas |
PseudomonasNoun1. Type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A genus of gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped bacteria widely distributed in nature. Some species are pathogenic for humans, animals, and plants. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PseudomonasSynonym: genus Pseudomonas (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pseudomonas |
| English words defined with "Pseudomonas": genus Xanthomonas ♦ ring disease, ring rot ♦ tobacco wilt ♦ Xanthomonas. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Pseudomonas": Azurin ♦ Bacteriophage phi 6, Bongkrekic Acid, Burkholderia ♦ Cefsulodin, Comamonas acidovorans, Comamonas testosteroni ♦ Enterocolitis, Necrotizing ♦ Inovirus ♦ Leviviridae ♦ Microbial Collagenase, Mupirocin ♦ Pseudomonas Infections, Pseudomonas Phages, Pyocins, Pyocyanine, Pyrrolnitrin ♦ RNA Phages. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pseudomonas" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (pseudomonas, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas Phages, Pseudomonas putida). |
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Pseudomonas diminuta. Leifson flagella stain (digitally colorized). Credit: CDC. | Scanning Electron Micrograph of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Credit: CDC. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Burkholderia (formerly Pseudomonas) mallei, a gram-negative bacillus. (references) | |
Strategies to block attachment of Pseudomonas to CF cells are under investigation. (references) | ||
Pseudomonas bacteria are a leading cause of lung infection and death among CF patients. (references) | ||
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| "Pseudomonas" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Pseudomonas" is used about 20 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) | 90% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (plural) | 10% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Pseudomonas": genus Pseudomonas ♦ Pseudomonas aeruginosa ♦ pseudomonas bacteria ♦ Pseudomonas cepacia ♦ Pseudomonas fluorescens ♦ Pseudomonas Infections ♦ Pseudomonas mallei infection ♦ Pseudomonas Phages ♦ Pseudomonas putida ♦ Pseudomonas pyocanea ♦ Pseudomonas solanacearum. 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 "Pseudomonas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 帚形菌属. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pyocyaneus (bacillus of blue pus, pseudomonas pyocyanea), pseudomonasbakterier (pseudomonas bacteria), Pseudomonas fluorescens stamme ATCC 15453 (Pseudomonas fluorescens strain ATCC 15453), snive (farcy, glanders, Pseudomonas mallei infection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Pseudomonas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pseudomonasbakteeri (pseudomonas bacteria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pseudomonas fluorescens liquefaciens (pseudomonas fluorescens), pseudomonas fluorescens (pseudomonas fluorescens), souche Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 15453 (Pseudomonas fluorescens strain ATCC 15453), morve (Pseudomonas mallei infection), infection Pseudomonas mallei (Pseudomonas mallei infection), farcin (Pseudomonas mallei infection), bactéries pseudomonas (pseudomonas bacteria), bacillus fluorescens liquefaciens (pseudomonas fluorescens), bacille pyocyanique (pseudomonas pyocyanea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pyozyaneus (bacillus of blue pus, pseudomonas pyocyanea), Pseudomonas fluorescens Stamm ATCC 15453 (Pseudomonas fluorescens strain ATCC 15453), Pseudomonas (pseudomonas bacteria), Rotz (farcy, glanders, snot, soft rot), Maliasmus (farcy, glanders, Pseudomonas mallei infection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψευδομονάδα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pyocyanea (bacillus of blue pus, pseudomonas pyocyanea), pseudomonas aeruginosa (bacillus of blue pus, pseudomonas pyocyanea), morva (farcy, glanders, Pseudomonas mallei infection), infezione morvosa (farcy, glanders, Pseudomonas mallei infection), farcino (farcy, glanders, Pseudomonas mallei infection), ceppo Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 15453 (Pseudomonas fluorescens strain ATCC 15453), bacterium aeruginosa (bacillus of blue pus, pseudomonas pyocyanea), bacillus pyocyaneus (bacillus of blue pus, pseudomonas pyocyanea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eudomonaspsay mormo (farcy, glanders, Pseudomonas mallei infection), estirpe Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 15433 (Pseudomonas fluorescens strain ATCC 15453). (various references) псевдомона. (various references) muermo (farcy), cepa Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 15453 (Pseudomonas fluorescens strain ATCC 15453), bacterias seudomonas (pseudomonas bacteria). (various references) pseudomonasbakterier (pseudomonas bacteria), pseudomonader (pseudomonas bacteria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Pseudomonas. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Pseudomonas" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pseudomonis, pseudonomas, pseudosounds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Pseudomonas" (pronounced suw'dumō"nuz) |
| 6 | -u m ō" n u z | kimonos. |
| 3 | -n u z | Annas, antennas, arenas, ballerinas, bananas, bandanas, Cabanas, donnas, Encinas, farinas, hyenas, iguanas, Lagunas, Manas, marinas, Salinas, saunas, savannas, subpoenas, tunas. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-n-o-o-p-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: apodoses, dampness, dapsones, endosmos, medusans, osmundas, spadones, spumones. | |
-4 letters: apodous, assumed, daemons, dampens, damsons, dapsone, desmans, madness, masoned, medusan, medusas, monades, moussed, opossum, osmosed, osmunda, osmunds, pneumas, pomades, pseudos, sendups, snooped, soudans, spooned, spoused, spumone, sundaes, suspend, unposed, unseams, upsends. | |
-5 letters: amends, amused, amuses, anodes, anuses, aspens, assume, daemon, dampen, damson, demons, desman. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-n-o-o-p-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: pseudomonads. | |
+2 letters: pseudomonades. | |
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