Usually means: Fungus used for antibiotics, cheese.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word Penicillium:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. penicillium: Merriam-Webster
  2. Penicillium, penicillium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. penicillium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. penicillium: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Penicillium: Vocabulary.com
  6. Penicillium, penicillium: Wordnik
  7. penicillium: Wiktionary
  8. penicillium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. penicillium: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. penicillium: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. penicillium: Dictionary.com
  12. Penicillium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Penicillium: Rhymezone
  14. penicillium: FreeDictionary.org
  15. penicillium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. penicillium: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Penicillium: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. penicillium: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Penicillium: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Penicillium: Glossary of Cheese Terms

(Note: See penicillia as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (penicillium)

noun:  Any of the blue-green fungi, of the genus Penicillium, that are used in the manufacture of cheeses, and are an important source of antibiotics.

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