bacillus
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bacillus
- /bæˈsɪl.əs/
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Learned borrowing from Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”), diminutive of baculum (“stick, staff, walking stick”).
noun bacilli
- Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease. 'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'
- Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
- Something which spreads like bacterial infection. The “bacillus of boom or depression,” he wrote, travels freely “from country to country.”
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noun any bacteria in the genus Bacillus
| Español | bacilo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 간균 gan'gyun |
| 日本語 | 桿菌 kankin, バシラス bashirasu, バチルス bachirusu |
| 中文 | 桿菌 /杆菌 gǎnjūn, 芽孢桿菌 /芽孢杆菌 yábāo gǎnjùn |
| हिन्दी | बैसिलस baisilas, दण्डाणु daṇḍāṇu |
| Português | bacilo |
| Français | bacille |
| Deutsch | Bazillus |
| Italiano | bacillo |
| Ελληνικά | βάκιλλος vákillos |
| Română | bacil |
| Русский | баци́лла bacílla |
| Tiếng Việt | trực khuẩn |
| العربية | عَصَوِيَّة ʕaṣawiyya |
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