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BACILLARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bacillary mean? 

BACILLARY (adjective)
  The adjective BACILLARY has 2 senses:

1. relating to or produced by or containing bacilliplay

2. formed like a bacillusplay

  Familiarity information: BACILLARY used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BACILLARY (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or produced by or containing bacilli

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

bacillar; bacillary

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Pertainym:

bacillus (aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil)

Derivation:

bacillus (aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Formed like a bacillus

Synonyms:

bacillar; bacillary; bacilliform; baculiform; rod-shaped

Similar:

formed (having or given a form or shape)

Derivation:

bacillus (aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil)


 Context examples 


A species of bacteria in the phylum Actinobacteria consisting of lipophilic, non-spore-forming, non-motile, Gram-positive rods that vary from short coccobacilli to long bacillary forms.

(Corynebacterium jeikeium, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase and urease positive, acid-fast, hydrolyzes esculin but not casein, reduces nitrate, and characteristically produces a mycelium that fragments into bacillary and coccoid elements.

(Nocardia asteroides, NCI Thesaurus)



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