Penicillium Definition

pĕnĭ-sĭlē-əm
penicillia, penicilliums
noun
Any of a genus (Penicillium) of imperfect fungi growing as green mold on stale bread, ripening cheese, decaying fruit, etc.: penicillin is derived from some species.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • genus Penicillium
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Trichocomaceae "” many economically important soil fungi and molds, widespread in cool and temperate climates.

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Other Word Forms of Penicillium

Noun

Singular:
penicillium
Plural:
penicilliums

Origin of Penicillium

  • New Latin Pēnicillium genus name from Latin pēnicillus brush pencil

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

  • From the genus name.

    From Wiktionary

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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