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Ac·re·mo·ni·um

Acremonium

 
pronunciation:
aek rih mo ni m
part of speech: noun
definition: the genus of fungi, formerly known as Cephalosporium, from which the antibiotic cephalosporin was originally isolated. Several species may cause disease in humans, esp. pneumonia.