Definitions for bacilli

bacilli ba·cil·lus

Spelling: [buh-sil-uh s]
IPA: /bəˈsɪl əs/

Bacilli is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in bacilli (abciill).

Definitions for bacilli

noun

  1. any rod-shaped or cylindrical bacterium of the genus Bacillus, comprising spore-producing bacteria.
  2. (formerly) any bacterium.

Origin of bacilli

1880-85; Late Latin, variant of Latin bacillum (diminutive of baculum) staff, walking stick

Examples for bacilli

The bacilli are not the only ones who can be numbered in their billions.

I think he is taking home the bacilli of the bubonic plague as a present to our country.

If the bacilli are aggregated into clumps, positive reaction.

That in the bacilli we have … the actual infective cause of tuberculosis.

The latter come in contact with the bacilli, and remain for some time attached to them.

Even a temperature of 70° C. is able to lessen the efficacy of the bacilli.

But there are influences, as there are bacilli, which unconsciously we absorb.

They are animals; bacteria, bacilli, micrococci, and all their tribe are vegetables.

The bacilli may lodge on toys or other articles from which the child gets them.

Nearly all cocci are immotile, while the bacilli may or may not be.

Word Value for bacilli
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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