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