Bacillus

имя существительное [множественное число] bacilli бацилла Синоним(ы): bacterium

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Bacillus

noun (plural bacilli) Etymology: New Latin, from Medieval Latin, small staff, rod, diminutive of Latin baculus staff, alteration of baculum 1. any of a genus (Bacillus) of rod-shaped gram-positive usually aerobic bacteria producing endospores and including many saprophytes and some parasites (as B. anthracis of anthrax); broadly a straight rod-shaped bacterium 2. bacterium; especially a disease-producing bacterium

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