English Dictionary

bacillus

IPA（発音記号）

/bæˈsɪl.əs/

名詞

広義 比喩的用法

Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease. / Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.

日本語の意味

桿菌：棒状の形状を持ち、芽胞を形成する好気性細菌。バシラス属に含まれ、病原性を示す種も存在する。 / バシラス菌：バシラス属に属する菌を指し、特に棒状の形状と芽胞形成の特徴を持つ細菌。

Laboratory tests confirmed that the strain was a bacillus capable of producing heat-resistant spores.

研究室の検査で、その株が耐熱性の胞子を形成するバチルス属の芽胞形成桿菌であることが確認された。

意味（1）

Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.

'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'

意味（2）

Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.

意味（3）

(figuratively, by extension) Something which spreads like bacterial infection.

The “bacillus of boom or depression,” he wrote, travels freely “from country to country.”

bacilli （ plural ）