The annual ESPN sports poll has shown soccer as the fourth most popular team sport in the United States every year since overtaking hockey in 2006; as of 2011, 8.2% of Americans rank soccer as their favorite sport (compared to 3.8% for hockey).
Definition of DERO. : a genus of small aquatic oligochaete worms (family Naididae) having an expanded anal hood from which project two pairs of cylindrical ciliated gills. ADVERTISEMENT.ote that some information is displayed differently in the Unabridged. To access the complete Unabridged Dictionary, with an additional 300,000 words that aren't in our free dictionary, start a free trial.
Dermatophytes (derived from Greek Î´Î­ÏÎ¼Î±ÏÎ¿Ï (dermatos), from Î´Î­ÏÎ¼Î±, which means skin and -phyte, from phuton, phutÃ³n meaning) plant are a common label for a group of three types of fungus that commonly causes skin disease in animals and. humanspecies capable of reproducing sexually belong in the teleomorphic genus Arthroderma, of the Ascomycota (see Teleomorph, anamorph and holomorph for more information on this type of fungal life cycle). Dermatophytes cause infections of the skin, hair and nails, obtaining nutrients from keratinized material.