Bacillus

Definitions

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. Something which spreads like bacterial infection.
   broadly, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide⟳ under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'”

“"You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus.”

“The “bacillus of boom or depression,” he wrote, travels freely “from country to country.””

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