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Word: Bacillus
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century: from late Latin, diminutive of Latin baculus ‘stick’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
bəˈsɪləs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a rod-shaped bacterium.
Short Definition:rod-shaped bacterium
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