| Salmonella typhosa | Former name for Salmonella typhi. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| salmonellosis | Infection with bacteria of the genus Salmonella. Patients with sickle cell anaemia and compromised immune systems are particularly susceptible. Origin: Salmonella + G. -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000) |
| salmonet | <zoology> A salmon of small size; a samlet. Origin: Cf. Samlet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salmonidae | A family of anadromous fish comprising the salmons, trouts, whitefishes, graylings, and chars. They are the most important food and game fishes. Their habitat is the northern atlantic and pacific, both marine and inland, and the great lakes. (nelson: fishes of the world, 1976, p97) (12 Dec 1998) |
| salmonids | Fish of the family Salmonidae, including salmon, trout, chars, whitefish, ciscoes and grayling. In general usage, the term most often refers to salmon, trout and chars. (09 Oct 1997) |
| salmoniformes | An order of fish comprising pikes, salmons, mudminnows, smelts, barreleyes, slickheads, trouts, and many other families - totalling 24 - with 145 genera and 508 species. They are both marine and freshwater fish, found in all oceans and are quite numerous in the northern hemisphere. (12 Dec 1998) |
| salmonoid | <zoology> Like, or pertaining to, the Salmonidae, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon. Any fish of the family Salmonidae. Origin: Salmon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salogen | <chemistry> A halogen. Origin: L. Sal salt + -gen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salol | <chemistry> A white crystalline substance consisting of phenol salicylate. Origin: Salicylic + -ol. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salolase | <enzyme> Hydrolyzes phenyl esters (salicylates); may be classified with a-esterase, EC 3.1.1.2 Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| saloop | An aromatic drink prepared from sassafras bark and other ingredients, at one time much used in London. <botany> Saloop bush, an Australian shrub (Rhagodia hastata) of the Goosefoot family, used for fodder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salorthids | Soils of arid regions with salic (salt-bearing) horizon within 30 inches of the surface and saturated within 40 inches for one month or more in most years, common in playas of the Southwest. (09 Oct 1997) |
| salp | <zoology> Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpidae. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salpa | Origin: NL., cf. L. Salpa a kind of stockfish. <zoology> A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. Each species exists in two distinct forms, one of which lives solitary, and produces, by budding from an internal organ, a series of the other kind. These are united together, side by side, so as to form a chain, or cluster, often of large size. Each of the individuals composing the chain carries a single egg, which develops into the solitary kind. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salpid | <zoology> A salpa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |