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Definition: Actinomycete |
ActinomyceteNoun1. Any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Biology & Biotechnology | Filamentous, or thread bacteria having certain morphological features of fungi. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Actinomycete |
| English words defined with "actinomycete": E-Mycin, Erythrocin, erythromycin, Ethril ♦ fradicin ♦ Garamycin, gentamicin ♦ hydroxytetracycline ♦ Ilosone ♦ mycomycin ♦ Neobiotic, neomycin, novobiocin ♦ oxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride ♦ Pediamycin ♦ streptomycin, streptothricin ♦ Terramycin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "actinomycete": Streptomyces antibioticus, Streptomyces aureofaciens. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Shows photo of Selman Waksman and associates testing Streptomycin, a bacterial antibiotic produced by the soil actinomycete - chiefly used in the treatment of tuberculosis. New Jersey Agriculture Experimental Station at Rutgers University.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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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. |
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actinomycete | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "actinomycete"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | actinomycète (actinomyces). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | actinomyceteay | ||||
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Words beginning with "actinomycete": actinomycetes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-m-n-o-t-t-y" | |
-3 letters: contactee, emittance. | |
-4 letters: acetonic, coinmate, cyanotic, taconite, tectonic, tenacity. | |
-5 letters: acetone, aconite, amenity, amniote, anytime, catmint, cementa, centime, centimo, cocaine, coenact, comatic, cometic, conceit, contact, cyanite, ectatic, encomia, etamine, matinee, mycotic, nematic, nictate, oceanic, onetime, taction, teatime, tetanic, toccate, tomenta, tonemic, tonetic, totemic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-m-n-o-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: actinomycetes. | |
+4 letters: syncategorematic. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01101111 01101101 01111001 01100011 01100101 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c t i n o m y c e t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0074 0069 006E 006F 006D 0079 0063 0065 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356986758081799169718671 |
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