throw up

en-verb

throw up (third-person singular simple present throws up, present participle throwing up, simple past threw up, past participle thrown up)

throws up (present singular third-person)
throwing up (participle present)
threw up (past)
thrown up (participle past)

The vomit sense is a clipping of throw up one's accounts (18th century), from earlier idiom cast up one's accounts (15th century).

The baby threw up all over my shirt.

That cat is always throwing up hairballs.

I wonder what happens if you throw up in zero gravity.

1988 September 19, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

(intransitive, transitive, now informal, bacteriology) To vomit.


chlamydia

en-noun

chlamydia (countable and uncountable, plural chlamydias or chlamydiae)

From New Latin chlamydia, from Ancient Greek χλαμύδιον (khlamúdion, “small cloak”), from χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak”).

der

That makes sense, because we’re all looking for flowery language from our physicians. “Like the sunlight shines upon the hidden grassy meadow, so does chlamydia cast a warm glow upon your private parts.”

2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Dr. Oz and Nutritional Supplements”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 8, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

sexually transmitted disease
sexually transmitted disease

(uncountable) Any of several common, often asymptomatic, sexually transmitted diseases caused by the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis.


blue-green alga

en-noun

blue-green alga (plural blue-green algae)

Blue-green algae cells lack nuclei, and pigment is scattered.

1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:

Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the British Isles, has been hit by recorded levels of potentially toxic blue-green algae that regional agencies say have not been seen since the 1970s.

2023 August 23, Tommy Greene, “Lough Neagh ‘dying in plain sight’ due to vast algal blooms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Any member of the taxonomic class or phylum Cyanobacteria; a primitive photosynthetic organism similar to bacteria which is thought to have generated the first oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.


bacillus

Learned borrowing from Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”), diminutive of baculum (“stick, staff, walking stick”).

lbor

'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'

"You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus.

1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.


staphylococcus

From New Latin, from staphylo- + -coccus.

This Scottish bacteriologist accidentally discovered the antibiotic penicillin after bacteria-killing fungus formed on staphylococci cultures he had left unattended.

2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 127:

A spherical gram-positive parasitic bacterium of the genus Staphylococcus, causing blisters, septicemia, and other infections.


anthrax

en-noun

anthrax (usually uncountable, plural anthraxes)

From Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “abscess, boil”).

der

Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus anthracis#Translingual

(pathology) An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.

The human disease that can occur in humans through contact with infected herbivores, tissue from infected animals, or high concentrations of anthrax spores, but is not usually spread between humans, with symptoms including lesions on the skin or in the lungs, often fatal.


pertussis

en-noun

pertussis (countable and uncountable, plural pertusses)

From New Latin, from Latin per- (“thorough”) + tussis (“cough”).

With the introduction of an improved and standardized pertussis vaccine in the 1940s, there followed a remarkable decline in pertussis in the United States, most of the Western world, and Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.

1976, Charles R. Manclark, “The Current Status of Pertussis Vaccine: An Overview”, in D. Perlman, editor, Advances in Applied Microbiology, volume 20, page 1:

Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that infects the human respiratory tract, causing the disease pertussis or whooping cough.

2009, Zoë E. V. Worthington, Nicholas H. Carbonetti, “18: Bordetella pertussis”, in Karl Wooldridge, editor, Bacterial Secreted Proteins: Secretory Mechanisms and Role in Pathogenesis, page 413:

2015, Dr. Stephen Berger, Pertussis: Global Status, GIDEON Informatics, Inc., E-book, page 343,
During 1993 to 2004, the hospitalization rate [in the US] for pertussis among infants ages <= 2 months was 239 per 100,000 live births.


food poisoning

food poisoning (usually uncountable, plural food poisonings)

(pathology, bacteriology) Any food-borne disease, such as salmonella, that typically causes diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, fever and abdominal cramps.


salmonella

salmonella (plural salmonellas or salmonellae)

salmonellas (plural)
salmonellae (plural)

/ˌsæməˈnɛlə/

From the genus name Salmonella. Named after American veterinarian Daniel Elmer Salmon.

named-after

Everyone got sick from salmonella in the undercooked meat.

Any of the serotypes of the two species of rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, especially Salmonella enterica, that cause typhoid fever and salmonellosis, manifest as food poisoning and other diseases.

沙門氏菌 /沙门氏菌

any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella


acidophilus

/ˌæsɪˈdɑfɪləs/

/ˌæsɪˈdɒfɪləs/

From New Latin acidophilus (“acid-loving”).

Lactobacillus acidophilus
Lactobacillus acidophilus#Translingual

Lactobacillus acidophilus, one of the bacteria commonly used in fermenting yogurt


sea sawdust

Coined by sailors on Captain James Cook's 1768-71 voyage (his first voyage) to the south seas and Australia.

1770, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks at Project Gutenberg Australia
The seamen who are now convinc'd that it was not as they had thought the spawn of fish began to call it Sea sawdust, a name certainly not ill adapted to its appearance.

Marine blue-green algae (cyanobacteria, actually brown coloured) of the genus Trichodesmium.


rickettsia

en-noun

rickettsia (plural rickettsias or rickettsiae)

rickettsias (plural)
rickettsiae (plural)

From translingual Rickettsia (genus name), from Howard Taylor Ricketts, equivalent to Ricketts + -ia.

Any of a group of gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by ticks, fleas and lice, that cause typhus and other diseases.


pseud

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pseud.wav

(medicine, colloquial) Pseudomonas bacteria.


vomiting

vomiting (countable and uncountable, plural vomitings)

Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:

It is certainly probable that these black vomitings and stools may be absent, and in that case it would be extremely difficult to diagnose between simple ulcer of the stomach and non-ulcerative gastritis.

1856, William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone, The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences:

(bacteriology) The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.


spirochete

Any of several coiled bacteria of the order Spirochaetales, most of which are pathogenic to both humans and other animals.


nisin

nisin (countable and uncountable, plural nisins)

Blend of group N + streptococci + inhibitory substance.

blend

Lactococcus lactis
Lactococcus lactis#Translingual

(biochemistry) A polycyclic peptide produced by fermentation with the bacterium Lactococcus lactis; used as a preservative in processed cheese etc.


fat choy

a blue-green alga (Nostoc flagelliforme) used as a vegetable in Chinese cooking


coccus

From New Latin, from Latin coccum, from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed”).


spirulina

/ˌspɪɹəˈliːnə/

Another interesting factor in Spirulina is its effect upon appetite. Either it is so concentrated that the body signals a satisfaction feeling from the digestive tract where Spirulina has a remarkable 85% digestibility […]

1980, Christopher B. Hills, The Secrets of Spirulina: Medical Discoveries of Japanese Doctors, Nicholson:

Research by the meat and dairy industries has been slanted. New discoveries show that B12 can be found in numerous non-meat sources, such as olives, mushrooms, bananas, spirulina, bee pollen, concord grapes, […]

1982 February, Paavo Airola, “Plant Sources of Vitamin B12”, in Vegetarian Times, →ISSN, page 88:

A food supplement prepared from blue-green algae of the genus Arthrospira found in soda lakes.


streptococcus

Morphologically a compound of strepto- + -coccus. They grow in chains or pairs, thus the name — from Ancient Greek στρεπτός (streptós, “twisted, pliant”), like a chain. Compare the genus name Streptococcus.

A spherical, gram-positive bacterium of the genus Streptococcus. Although commonly found benignly in the human mouth and gut, and though many species are non-pathogenic, other species can cause diseases including strep throat and more serious conditions.


yersinia

en-noun

yersinia (plural yersinias or yersiniae)

After Alexandre Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist, + -ia.

Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pestis#Translingual

A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.


actinomycete

Any of various filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria, of the order Actinomycetales, that resemble fungi. Some actinomycetes are pathogens and some are sources of antibiotics.


bordetella

bordetella (plural bordetellas or bordetellae)

bordetellas (plural)
bordetellae (plural)

(bacteriology) Any of several gram-negative coccobacilli, of the genus Bordetella, many of which are pathogenic; especially Bordatella pertussis which causes whooping cough and kennel cough.


borrelia

borrelia (plural borrelias or borreliae)

For Amédée Borrel, French bacteriologist.

Any of various helically coiled spirochetes, of the genus Borrelia, some of which cause relapsing fever


fischerindole

(biochemistry) Any of several antimicrobial alkaloids, obtained from a blue-green alga of the genus Fischerella, having a structure similar to hapalindole.


clostridium

Any of several mostly anaerobic gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Clostridium, that are present in the soil and in the intestines of humans and animals and are capable of forming spores


campylobacter

These days, we can see how even small increases in temperature and rainfall around the world often lead to higher rates of disease, whether that’s malaria in Kenya and Ethiopia, Murray Valley encephalitis in southern Australia or campylobacter in Bangladesh.

2023, Oliver Balch, “Animal, Mineral, Pathogen”, in Literary Review, number 520:

Any bacteria of the genus Campylobacter; a principal cause of food poisoning.


pneumococcus

Streptococcus pneumoniae
Streptococcus pneumoniae#Translingual

A gram-positive bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, that causes pneumonia and other infectious diseases


pseudomonad

From pseudo- + monad; a trivialized form of the scientific name Pseudomonas.

Any of many bacteria of the family Pseudomonadaceae, some of which are pathogenic


listeria

One of the main reasons fridge temperatures are recommend to be set at 5ºC is because of listeria. Listeria is a food poisoning bacterium that is psychrotrophic – in other words it likes cold temperatures. From the growth models, we know that listeria grows nearly twice as fast at 8°C as it does at 5°C, hence the recommended 5ºC, which helps keep us safe from listeria.

2018 January 15, Kaarin Goodburn, “How chilled is your fridge?”, in Food Standards Agency:

Any rod-shaped, gram-positive bacterium, of the genus Listeria, especially those responsible for the bacterial infection listeriosis.


cyanophyte

From cyano- (“dark blue-green”) + -phyte (“plant”).


cyanobacterium

At some point in the first billion years of life, cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, learned to tap into a freely available resource – the hydrogen that exists in spectacular abundance in water.

2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 262:

Photosynthesis was established some billion years ago by ancient bacterial precursors of modern cyanobacteria.

2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 91:

(biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.

cianobacteri

prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria


mycobacterium

(bacteriology) Any of many rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria, of the genus Mycobacterium, that cause diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy.


enterococcus

enterococcus Wikispecies (canonical)
enterococci (plural)

gastrointestinal tract
gastrointestinal tract

(bacteriology) Any of a group of streptococci bacteria, of the genus Enterococcus, that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract and have great resistance to antibiotics


rhizobacterium

This study aimed to find out the effect of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR; Azospirillum brasilense and Azotobacter vinelandii) either alone or in combination with different doses of nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers on growth, seed yield, and oil quality of Brassica carinata (L.) cv. Peela Raya.

2013 October 4, Asia Nosheen, Asghari Bano, Faizan Ullah, “Bioinoculants: A sustainable approach to maximize the yield of Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata L.) under low input of chemical fertilizers”, in Toxicology and Industrial Health, →DOI, →PMID, Abstract:

(ecology) Any bacterium that has a symbiotic relationship with legumes via its rhizomes


gammaproteobacterium

Borrowed from translingual Gammaproteobacteria.

Any proteobacterium of the class Gammaproteobacteria


gonococcus

/ˈɡɒnəˌkɒkəs/

From a short form of gonorrhea + -coccus.

Any of the bacteria (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) that is responsible for gonorrhea.


eubacterial

en-adj

eubacterial (comparative more eubacterial, superlative most eubacterial)

more eubacterial (comparative)
most eubacterial (superlative)

(biology) Of or pertaining to the Eubacteria


crenarchaeon

Any archaebacterium of the phylum Crenarchaeota.


mycoplasma

en-noun

mycoplasma (countable and uncountable, plural mycoplasmas or mycoplasmata)

mycoplasmas (plural)
mycoplasmata (plural)

From translingual Mycoplasma, from Latin, from Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “fungus”) + πλάσμα (plásma, “-shaped”). Equivalent to myco- + plasma.

Officials are investigating whether the illness was caused by mycoplasma, a common bacteria known as walking pneumonia.

2007 January 5, Katie Zezima, “More Rhode Island Schools Closed in Disease Outbreak”, in New York Times:

It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

2013 March 9, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 2017-01-04, page 83:

Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae


lactobacillus

Any of many rod-shaped, nonmotile, aerobic bacteria, of the genus Lactobacillus, that ferment sugars to form lactic acid


planctomycete

Any of many aquatic bacteria of the phylum Planctomycetes.


streptomycete

Any bacterium of the family Streptomycetaceae


acinetobacter

Any bacterium of the genus Acinetobacter.


mycoplasm

Any bacterium, of the genus Mycoplasma, that lack a true cell wall


treponema

treponema (plural treponemas or treponemata)

treponemas (plural)
treponemata (plural)

Any of many anaerobic spirochetes, of the genus Treponema, many of which cause infectious diseases.


actinobacterium

Any member of the phylum or class Actinobacteria of bacteria.


firmicute

In contrast, all the interactions in this motif are conserved in several distantly related genomes such as the beta-proteobacterium B. pertussis and the firmicute D. hafniense (fig. 2b).

2007, M. Madan Babu, S. Balaji, L. Aravind, “General Trends in the Evolution of Prokaryotic Transcriptional Regulatory Networks”, in Jean-Nicolas Volff, editor, Gene and Protein Evolution, page 72:

Type C ("clostridial") is found in the firmicute bacterium Clostridium, the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium, and also in the archaeon Methanosarcina.

2008, J. P. W. Young, “Chapter 14: The Phylogeny and Evolution of Nitrogenases”, in Rafael Palacios, William Edward Newton, editors, Genomes and Genomics of Nitrogen-fixing Organisms, page 227:

2013, Dietrich H. Nies, 5: RND Efflux Pumps for Metal Cations, Edward W. Yu, Qijing Zhang, Melissa H. Brown, Stephanie Baugh (editors), Microbial Efflux Pumps: Current Research, page 110,
Exceptions were sequence CRE-06266 from the worm Caenorhabditis remanei and ZP_01666833 from the Gram-positive firmicute Thermosinus carboxidovorans.


shigella

shigella (plural shigella or shigellas or shigellae)

shigella (plural)
shigellas (plural)
shigellae (plural)

After Kiyoshi Shiga, the Japanese bacteriologist who studied shigella.

(bacteriology) A bacterium in the genus Shigella, some kinds of which may cause a form of dysentery called shigellosis.


legionella

legionella (countable and uncountable, plural legionellas or legionellae)

legionellas (plural)
legionellae (plural)

From legion + -ella, from Latin legio.
Constructed from "American Legion", after an outbreak of a then-unknown "mystery disease" (Legionnaires' disease) at a convention of the American Legion in Philadelphia in 1976.

Thameslink Train Services Director Rob Mullen responded: "A very low level of legionella was found during testing in a small number of our Class 700 train toilets. While it is extremely unlikely this would cause any harm, the toilets were immediately locked out of use. The trains were taken out of service and these toilets have now been drained, bleached and had their tanks completely re-filled. There is no recorded case of anyone, ever, having contracted legionella from a train."

2021 September 8, “RMT strike threat over legionella on Thameslink trains”, in RAIL, number 939, page 18:


propionibacterium

Any of various saprophytic gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Propionibacterium, that occur in milk and in the intestines, some of which are pathogenic, but others of which produce the holes in Swiss cheese


vibrio

"He dips it into the poison and they are gone. Our Gardener is, in my opinion, about to dip the solar system, and the human bacillus, the little mortal vibrio which twisted and wriggled upon the outer rind of the earth, will in an instant be sterilized out of existence."

1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Any of several bacteria, of the genus Vibrio, shaped like a curved rod.


helicobacter

“We provide evidence that there is a relationship between the decrease in helicobacter prevalence and the increase in childhood asthma.”

2007 April 24, Nicholas Bakalar, “Resistance: Bacterium Linked to Ulcers May Lower Risk of Asthma”, in New York Times:

Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.


neuroborreliosis

central nervous system
central nervous system

A disorder of the central nervous system caused by a spirochete of the genus Borrelia.


EHEC

The news media regale us with horror stories about dangerous flu viruses, multidrug-resistant superbugs, and EHEC-contaminated food.

2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 211:

(pathology) Initialism of enterohemorrhagic E. coli.

Shigatoxigenic and verotoxigenic Escherichia coli


anthracic

anthracic blood

anthracic disease

anthracic treatment

(microbiology) Of or relating to anthrax.


campylobacterium

Any of several gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Campylobacter, that cause food poisoning


amylobacter

From Latin amylum (“starch”) + bacterium.

(biology) A bacillus (Clostridium butyricum) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. It has medicinal uses


corynebacterium

Any bacterium, of the genus Corynebacterium, many of which are pathogenic or parasitic.


star jelly

A gelatinous substance that, according to folklore, is deposited on the earth during meteor showers.


nostoc

nostoc (countable and uncountable, plural nostocs)

Any member of the genus Nostoc of cyanobacteria, found in a variety of environmental niches, that form colonies composed of filaments of moniliform cells in a gelatinous sheath.


treponeme

The syphilis that Catapano and other AIDS-syphilis theorists are especially concerned about may develop when repeated treponeme infections are not treated, or, more commonly, are mistreated with penicillin.

1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 8:

Any of the bacterium of the genus Treponema


acetobacter

Any of the genus Acetobacter of acetic acid bacteria characterized by the ability to convert ethanol to acetic acid in the presence of oxygen, and used in the commercial production of vinegar.


comma bacillus

(bacteriology) A variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera.


witches' butter

witches' butter (usually uncountable, plural witches' butters)

Certain species of Nostoc of blue-green algae, especially Nostoc commune, that form a brownish gelatinous mass when wet.


black moss

black moss (usually uncountable, plural black mosses)

Bryoria fremontii
Bryoria fremontii#Translingual

(US) Bryoria fremontii (wila), a lichen eaten by First Peoples in North America.


prochlorophyte

/pɹəʊˈklɒɹəfʌɪt/

/pɹəʊˈklɔːɹəfʌɪt/

From pro- (“earlier, prior”) + chlorophyte, from chloro- (“green”) + -phyte (“plant”).

(biology) a bright green cyanobacterium of the class Prochlorophyta, distinguished by the presence of both chlorophyll a and b and the lack of phycobilins (and so resembling the chloroplasts of higher plants)


Bt

Bacillus thuringiensis
Bacillus thuringiensis#Translingual

(bacteriology, agriculture) Bacillus thuringiensis, a species of bacteria used for biological control of insects.

(bacteriology) Initialism of botulinum toxin.


Klebs-Löffler bacillus

Klebs-Löffler bacillus (plural Klebs-Löffler bacilli)

Discovered in 1884 by German bacteriologists Edwin Klebs (1834–1912) and Friedrich Löffler (1852–1915).

Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the pathogenic bacterium that causes diphtheria.


bedsonia

bedsonia (plural bedsonias or bedsoniae)

From a former taxonomic name, from the surname Bedson.


Hansen's bacterium

Mycobacterium lepromatosis, the bacterium that causes leprosy (Hansen's disease).


Koch's bacillus

Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis#Translingual

(now chiefly historical) The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes tuberculosis.


Eberth's bacillus

Eberth's bacillus (plural Eberth's bacilli)

It was described in 1880 by Karl Joseph Eberth. The pathogen of typhoid fever, it has since been renamed Salmonella typhi.

The bacillus Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica, the cause of typhoid.


blue-green bacterium

blue-green bacterium (plural blue-green bacteria)


diplobacterium

A bacterium composed of two adherent bacteria


deinococcus

(zoology) Any bacterium of the genus Deinococcus.


hypersporulator

A bacterium that undergoes hypersporulation


nostocalean

Any cyanobacterium of the order Nostocales


anaerolineacean

Any bacterium of the family Anaerolineaceae


oscillatorian

Any filamentous cyanobacterium of the genus Oscillatoria.


poribacterium

A bacterium, of the proposed phylum Poribacteria, present in sea sponges of the phylum Porfira


nebraskensis

From Nebraska + Latin -ēnsis (“of or from”).

A subspecies of Clavibacter michiganensis that causes wilt and leaf blight in maize.


vibrionacean

Any proteobacterium of the family Vibrionaceae.


neisseria

neisseria (plural neisserias or neisseriae)

(bacteriology) Any of several Gram-negative bacteria of the genus Neisseria.


moraxella

moraxella (plural moraxellas or moraxellae)

Borrowed from translingual Moraxella (genus name).

(bacteriology) Any of several short rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria of the genus Moraxella (under family Moraxellaceae) which includes the causative agent (Moraxella lacunata) of catarrhal conjunctivitis; the bacterium inhabits the mucous membranes of mammals and causes infections of the middle ear, respiratory tract, and conjunctiva.


strepto

Clipping of streptocarpus. Compare the suffix strepto-.

I also have a WWW page with pictures if interested: […] look under the Convention '95 page, there are several streptos. Also look under "Take a bite of the strang stuff" for a view of a^([sic]) unifoliate strep.

1996 June 16, Justin Thyme, “Re: Streptocarpus”, in uk.rec.gardening (Usenet):


anabaena

Any cyanobacterium of the genus Anabaena.


azotobacterium

Blend of translingual Azotobacter m + bacterium, surface analysis French azote m (“nitrogen”) + -o- + bacterium or translingual Azotobacter m + -ium.


purple sulfur bacterium

en-noun

purple sulfur bacterium (plural purple sulfur bacteria)

(bacteriology) Any gammaproteobacterium of the order Chromatiales.