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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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
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