Penicillium Synonyms

pĕnĭ-sĭlē-əm
Genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. genus Penicillium

Words Related to Penicillium

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. notatum
  2. chrysogenum
  3. rhizopus
  4. aspergillus
  5. Trichoderma
  6. cladosporium
  7. alternaria
  8. Beauveria
  9. expansum
  10. toxin-producing
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Penicillium Sentence Examples

  • Thus, Pasteur showed that Penicillium glaucum, when grown in an aqueous solution of ammonium racemate, decomposed the dextro-tartrate, leaving the laevotartrate, and the solution which was originally inactive to polarized light became dextro-rotatory.

  • It started when penicillin was extracted from the mold penicillium notatum in the 1930s.

  • However, several molds of the genus penicillium are capable of producing mycotoxins which may produce some adverse health effect.

  • Division A comprises (a) the true Ascomycetes, of which the moulds Eurotium and Penicillium are examples, and (b) the Hemiasci, which includes the yeasts.

  • In some of the true Ascomycetes, such as Penicillium glaucum, the conidia if grown in saccharine solutions, which they have the power of fermenting, develop single cell yeast-like forms, and do not - at any rate for a time - produce again the characteristic branching mycelium.

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