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bacillus

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(Engels)

  1. Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
  2. Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
  3. (broadly, figuratively) Something which spreads like bacterial infection.

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/bæˈsɪl.əs/
Etimologie (Engels)

Learned borrowing from Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”), diminutive of baculum (“stick, staff, walking stick”).

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