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n. Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming, aerobic bacteria of the genus Bacillus that often occur in chains and include B. anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax.

n. Any of various bacteria, especially a rod-shaped bacterium.

n. Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.

n. A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

n. In anatomy, a little rod or rod-like body, as one of the rods of the retina.

n. An individual of the genus Bacillus.

n. [capitalized] A so-called genus of the microscopical vegetable organisms known as bacteria, having the form of very slender straight filaments, short or of moderate length, and consisting of one or more elongated cylindrical joints.

n. [capitalized] In entomology, a genus of orthopterous gressorial insects, of the family Phasmidæ, the walking-sticks.

n. Medicine made up into a long round figure like a stick.

n. In sponges, a microstrongyle; a form of spicule.

n. aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

"For instance, the germ that causes typhoid fever is called the _bacillus typhosus_; that which causes tuberculosis is called the bacillus tuberculosis; while the germ of diphtheria known as the _Klebs-Loeffler bacillus_, after the two men who discovered it."

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