bacillus en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /bæˈsɪl.əs/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”), diminutive of baculum (“stick, staff, walking stick”).
Meanings
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Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
"You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus.
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'
1895, H. G. Wells, The Stolen Bacillus:
- Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
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(broadly, figuratively) Something which spreads like bacterial infection.
The “bacillus of boom or depression,” he wrote, travels freely “from country to country.”
1934 [2018], Gottfried Haberler quoted in Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 71
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bacilli | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
thiobacillus · bacillicidal · bacillicide · Eberth's bacillus · Actinobacillus · Klebs-Löffler bacillus · comma bacillus · microbacillus · bacilliferous · Koch's bacillus · Döderlein's bacillus · colibacillus
Translations (51)
gu દંડાણુ (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · el βάκιλλος (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · bg баци́л (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · it bacillo (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · be бацы́ла (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · fr bacille (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · ka ბაცილა (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · cmn 芽孢桿菌 /芽孢杆菌 (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · eu bazilo (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · fa باسیلوس (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · sq bacil (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · hu bacilus (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · es bacilo (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · ar عَصَوِيَّة (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · hi दण्डाणु (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · sh бацил (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · lt bacila (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · pt bacilo (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · is baktería (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · ko 간균 (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · uk баци́ла (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · pl laseczka (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · cs bacil (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · ro bacil (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · km ទណ្ឌាណូ (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · sh bacil (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · tr bacillus (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · sv bacill (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · cmn 桿菌 /杆菌 (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · vo bazil (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · sk bacil (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · my ဗက်တီးရီးယားပိုး (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · fi basilli (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · hi बैसिलस (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · lv bacilis (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · ja バチルス (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · th บาซิลลัส (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · et batsill (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · sl bacillus (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · hy ցուպիկ (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · mk бацил (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · tl habishay (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · pl pałeczka (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · ru баци́лла (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · ca bacil (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · ja バシラス (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · hy բացիլ (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · de Bazillus (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · vi trực khuẩn (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · ja 桿菌 (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) · is staflaga baktería (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus)