BACILLUS meaning: Rod-shaped, Gram-positive bacteria genus

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bacillus: Merriam-Webster
Bacillus, bacillus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bacillus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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bacillus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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Bacillus (insect), Bacillus (shape), Bacillus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Bacillus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bacillus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Bacillus: Rhymezone
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bacillus: Mnemonic Dictionary
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bacillus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bacillus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bacillus: Merriam-Webster

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bacillus: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bacillus)

▸ noun:  Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
▸ noun:  Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
▸ noun:  (figurative, by extension) Something which spreads like bacterial infection.

Opposite:

cocci, spirillum, microbe, germ, pathogen

Types:

streptococcus, staphylococcus, lactobacillus, bacillus cereus, bacillus anthracis, more...

Phrases:

tubercle bacillus, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus anthracis, typhoid bacillus, anthrax bacillus, more...

Adjectives:

negative, positive, small, fast, specific, human, anaerobic, short, fusiform, weeks, motile

Colors:

lime, olive, chartreuse, fern, avocado, more...

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