Usually means: Rod-shaped, Gram-positive bacteria genus.
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  1. bacillus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bacillus, bacillus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bacillus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bacillus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bacillus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bacillus, bacillus: Wordnik
  7. bacillus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bacillus: Wiktionary
  9. bacillus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bacillus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bacillus: Dictionary.com
  12. bacillus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Bacillus (insect), Bacillus (shape), Bacillus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bacillus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bacillus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Bacillus: Rhymezone
  17. Bacillus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bacillus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bacillus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bacillus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. bacillus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  22. bacillus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. bacillus: Merriam-Webster

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  1. bacillus: Encyclopedia

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  1. bacillus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  6. Bacillus: Medical dictionary
  7. Bacillus: Drug Medical Dictionary
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  9. Bacillus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary

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(Note: See bacilli as well.)

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

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