ˌsalməˈnelə noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Daniel E. Salmon died 1914 American veterinarian + New Latin -ella
1. capitalized : a genus of aerobic gram-negative rod-shaped nonspore-forming usually motile bacteria (family Enterobacteriaceae) that grow well on artificial media and form acid and gas on many carbohydrates but not on lactose, sucrose, or salicin, that are all pathogenic for man and other warm-blooded animals, and that are chiefly associated with various types of food poisoning, with acute gastrointestinal inflammation, or with diseases of the genital tract — see fowl typhoid , pullorum disease , typhoid
2. plural salmonellas -ləz or salmonella -lə also salmonellae -(ˌ)lē sometimes capitalized : any bacterium of the genus Salmonella