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bacille

\ba.sil\
[basil] Suisse
[basil] France

Sounds like bacile, basile

Where it comes from

Du latin bacillum (« bâtonnet, baguette »).

noun bacilles

Microbe en forme de bâtonnet. Ici un vieillard tuberculeux tisonnant un poêle et prolongeant son agonie tout en criblant innocemment de ses bacilles les tout petits confiés à sa garde.
Genre de phasme du genre Bacillidae. Bacille de Rossi.

noun bacilles

Variante de bacile

In English

bacillus any bacteria in the genus Bacillus

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MLA

"bacille." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fr/bacille. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

bacille. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fr/bacille

Chicago

"bacille." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fr/bacille.

BibTeX

@misc{bacille_2026,
  title = {bacille},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fr/bacille},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}