Definitions
A rod-shaped bacterium.
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”), diminutive of baculum (“stick, staff, walking stick”).
Used in a sentence
“'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.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Rod-shaped germ”8 letters
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