Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun anthrax_bacillus

1 sense of anthrax bacillus

Sense 1
Bacillus anthracis, anthrax bacillus -- (a species of bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in animals (cattle and swine and sheep and rabbits and mice and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon)
       => bacillus, B -- (aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil)
       => bioweapon, biological weapon, bioarm -- (any weapon usable in biological warfare; "they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon")