Meaning & use
spirillum
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A type of spiral-shaped bacterium.
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Under the microscope, the spirillum's corkscrew shape was easy to identify.
Certain waterborne illnesses are caused by species of spirillum.
A note on using this word
Spirillum is both a general term for spiral-shaped bacteria and the name of a specific bacterial genus in microbiology.
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