Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Salmonella, many of which are pathogenic, causing food poisoning, typhoid, and paratyphoid fever in humans and other infectious diseases in domestic animals.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases
WordNet 3.0
- n. rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon
Etymologies
- From Salmonella, named for its discoverer, Daniel Elmer Salmon. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin Salmonella, genus name, after Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850-1914), American pathologist. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Even eggs should be washed as the salmonella is also on the outside of the egg as well as the inside.”
“Because salmonella is seldom distributed evenly in any lot of beef, "94% of the time, I won't find it even though it's there," Marsden says of testing.”
“I have heard that salmonella is a lot more common in the modern US than at other times and places due to industrial farming conditions and whatnot.”
“Well, salmonella is totally unaffected by refrigeration -- I'm sure you're right that there's a mental association, but it's baseless.”
“Because little boys catching salmonella is just boys being boys, apparently.”
“Maybe next week we see Michael suffering from salmonella from the raw chicken being on his face.”
“You have more of a chance of contracting e coli or salmonella from the groceries (meats and veggies) in stores right now than CWD from deer meat.”
“Sure, some people will tell you that salmonella is named after a Dr. Salmon who discovered it, but let's face it, that's what they want you to believe.”
“These children are NOT going to eat an egg which has sat out for any length of time, not unless salmonella is part of your holiday plans.”
“They may contain salmonella, which would be dangerous for a person who is immune-suppressed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘salmonella’.
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Medical terms or linguistic terms?
That's a terrible ablative case. Get me some morpheme, stet!
stet, stat, morpheme, morphine, ablative case, salmonella, morphology, nephrology, alethic modality, anaphoric clitic, bolus, hyperbole and 54 more...
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words
my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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Worse Than They Sound
fistula, cryptosporidium, debride, donnybrook, decerebrate, pillory, flagellate, disembogue, minatory, micturate, coprolite, nosocomial and 160 more...
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Did Someone Say a Dinner Party?
It's a hazardous world out there...poison all around. I've tried not to include too many drugs (including medicines) and have ignored the fact that too much of anything can poison you. We're going ...
cyanide, botulinum, chlorine, mustard gas, hydrogen cyanide gas, mercury, arsenic, ricin, strychnine, aconite, acetic acid, acetone and 147 more...
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Pregnant with Possibilities (Includin...
For double the fun, see also Congenital Conditions.
obstetrics, obstetrician, neonatology, neonatologist, isolette, postpartum, prepartum, puerperal fever, induce, pregnancy, episiotomy, meconium and 324 more...
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Italian Names I Really Thought I Saw ...
ravioli, salmonella, reptilio, velocirapta, radicchio, philadelphia, barcaloungia, hilario colletti, srebrenica, catafalqua, hungriata, maria lucia velveeta and 24 more...
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Eponyms Spelling Bee List
need to learn these words!!!!!!!!!!!
praline, hosta, salmonella, tortoni, gardenia, zinnia, samaritan, jeremiad, shrapnel, boswell, Fletcherism, bandersnatch and 41 more...
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Buggin' out
bacteria, antibiotic, spirochete, anthrax, gram positive, gram negative, tuberculosis, bacillus, typhus, rickettsia prowaz..., orientia tsutsuga..., vaccine and 24 more...
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wordie
morbid, ostentatious, enigma, heppelwhite, widdershins, mabel, caligari, maple, sebald, daedalus, salmonella, juggernaut and 62 more...
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The Sensuous Mystique of Gourmet Cuisine
Few things evoke the senses like fine dining: a meal prepared with care and dedication can be an intoxicating feast. These are words about, and inspired by, the love of good food.
glut, belch, barf, cellulite, bulimia, mold, coagulate, stale, salmonella, transfat, lard, diarrhea and 11 more...
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surprisingly eponymous
words that derive from personal names, though you might not have guessed it
rodomontade, celadon, galvanize, diesel, sideburns, bloomers, chauvinism, quixotic, epicurean, sandwich, chesterfield, gerrymander and 76 more...
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