bacillus
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Danh từ
nounPlural noun:
bacilli
- 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)(figurative, by extension) Something which spreads like bacterial infection.
The “bacillus of boom or depression,” he wrote, travels freely “from country to country.”
Nguồn gốc từ
Latin bacillus (little staff, wand), diminutive of baculum (stick, staff, walking stick).