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

1 sense of bacillus

Sense 1
bacillus, B -- (aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil)
       => eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria -- (a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella)