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bacilli

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ba·cil·lus  (b-sls)
n. pl. ba·cil·li (-sl)
1. 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.
2. Any of various bacteria, especially a rod-shaped bacterium.
[Late Latin, diminutive of Latin baculum, rod; see bak- in Indo-European roots.]


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Daughtry had inquired into the matter, and the inquiry was violent; for he had a wholesome fear of germs and bacilli, and when the two active young men tried to run him through with their filth-corroded spears, he caught the spear of one young man under his arm and put the other young man to sleep with a left hook to the jaw.
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