Salmonella Definition

sălmə-nĕlə
salmonellae, salmonellas
noun
Any of a genus (Salmonella) of Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria that cause various diseases in people and domestic animals, including typhoid fever and food poisoning.
Webster's New World
Salmonellosis.
American Heritage Medicine

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

The mayonnaise left in the sun at the picnic caused everyone there to come down with salmonella poisoning.
Wiktionary
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Enterobacteriaceae "” the salmonella bacteria.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Salmonella

Noun

Singular:
salmonella
Plural:
salmonellae, salmonellas

Origin of Salmonella

  • New Latin Salmonella genus name after Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850–1914), American pathologist

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • New Latin, from Salmon (“a surname") +"Ž -ella, after Daniel Elmer Salmon.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Salmonella, named for its discoverer, Daniel Elmer Salmon.

    From Wiktionary

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