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SPIRILLA

Dictionary entry overview: What does spirilla mean?

• SPIRILLA (noun)
The noun SPIRILLA has 1 sense:

1. any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form

Familiarity information: SPIRILLA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SPIRILLA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

spirilla; spirillum

Hypernyms ("spirilla" is a kind of...):

eubacteria; eubacterium; true bacteria (a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella)

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