Bacillus vs Bacilli - What's the difference?
bacillus | bacilli |
Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus , some of which cause disease.
* 1974 , (Graham Greene), (The Honorary Consul) , Pocket Books, New York, p. 94:
Bacilli is a related term of bacillus.
As nouns the difference between bacillus and bacilli
is that bacillus is any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease while bacilli is plural of lang=en.bacillus
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(bacilli)bacilli
English
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(head)- One lie in the presence of a policeman seemed to multiply like bacilli .