Dialister
noun
Dia·lis·ter
ˌdī-ə-ˈlis-tər
: a genus of minute gram-negative parasitic strictly anaerobic bacteria of the family Bacteroidaceae that grow only in fresh sterile tissue or ascitic fluid and comprise cells occurring singly, in pairs, or in short chains
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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