Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the form of a small rod; rod-shaped; bacillar in form.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Rod-shaped.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective formed like a bacillus

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Examples

  • In 1901, I described Piroplasma equi and in 1903, the bacilliform piroplasma of the Bovidae from preparations which had been sent to me by Mr. Theiler, a

    Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture 1967

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