See Also: order book(dictionary)
order book(dictionary)
Order book(finance)
Limit order book(finance)
Public Book (of order)(money)
Limit order book(money)
Order Book Official(finance)
Public book (of order)(finance)
Order Book Official(money)
I Ching (I Ging, Yi King, Book of Change, Book of Changes, Book of Metamorphoses)(health)

mycoderma (medicine) and order book (iou)


mycoderma (medicine)


mycoderma


1. <biology> One of the forms in which bacteria group themselves; a more or less thick layer of motionless but living bacteria, formed by the bacteria uniting on the surface of the fluid in which they are developed. This production differs from the zooloea stage of bacteria by not having the intermediary mucous substance.

2. A genus of microorganisms of which the acetic ferment (Mycoderma aceti), which converts alcoholic fluids into vinegar, is a representative. Cf. Mother.

Origin: NL, from Gr. Mykhs a fungus + derma skin.

Source: Websters Dictionary


order book (iou)



order book noun phr. L18.
[from ORDER noun + BOOK noun.]
A book in which orders are entered; spec. (a) Military a book in which General and regimental orders or regulations are entered; (b) Nautical a book kept on a man-of-war for recording occasional orders of the commander; (c) Politics in the House of Commons, a book in which motions to be submitted to the House must be entered; (d) Commerce a book in which the orders of customers are entered; transf. the number of orders to be fulfilled.