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samonella

samonella is the misspelling of salmonella.

Meaning of salmonella

Noun

salmonella (plural salmonellas or salmonellae)

  1. 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.
    • Everyone got sick from salmonella in the undercooked meat.
  2. Food poisoning, especially in humans, caused by such organisms.

Origin of samonella

Due to interference, first in pronunciation and then in spelling, from salmon, in which the 'l' is often silent. Salmonella is in fact not derived from salmon but from the name of its discoverer, Daniel Elmer Salmon.

Questions about samonella

What is samonella the misspelling of?
Samonella is the misspelling of salmonella.

Words near samonella in the dictionary

  1. Samojed
  2. Samojeds
  3. Samoki
  4. samoleon
  5. Samom
  6. samonella
  7. Samonpink
  8. Samonte
  9. Samontes
  10. samoom
  11. samooms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: samonella (page history and authors); salmonella (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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