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bacillus

3 entries found.

Main Entry:
ba·cil·lus 
          Listen to the pronunciation of bacillus
Pronunciation:
\bə-ˈsi-ləs\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural ba·cil·li 
          Listen to the pronunciation of bacilli \-ˌalso -lē\
Etymology:
New Latin, from Medieval Latin, small staff, rod, diminutive of Latin baculus staff, alteration of baculum
Date:
circa 1879
1: any of a genus (Bacillus) of rod-shaped gram-positive usually aerobic bacteria producing endospores and including many saprophytes and some parasites (as B. anthracis of anthrax) ; broadly : a straight rod-shaped bacterium2: bacterium ; especially : a disease-producing bacterium


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