Definition of Bacillar

1. Adjective. Relating to or produced by or containing bacilli.

Exact synonyms: Bacillary
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Partainyms: Bacillus, Bacillus
Derivative terms: Bacillus

2. Adjective. Formed like a bacillus.
Exact synonyms: Bacillary, Bacilliform, Baculiform, Rod-shaped
Similar to: Formed
Derivative terms: Bacillus

Definition of Bacillar

1. a. Shaped like a rod or staff.

2. a. Pertaining to, or produced by, the organism bacillus; bacillary.

Definition of Bacillar

1. Adjective. (biology) Shaped like a rod or staff. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bacillar

1. rod-shaped [adj]

Medical Definition of Bacillar

1. Shaped like a rod or staff. Origin: L. Bacillum little staff. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacillar

bachelorisms
bachelorly
bachelors
bachelorship
bachelorships
bachelour
bachelours
bachelry
baches
baching
bachs
bacillaceae
bacillaceae infections
bacillaemia
bacillar (current term)
bacillariae
bacillariophyte
bacillariophytes
bacillary
bacillary dysentery
bacillary haemoglobinuria
bacillary layer
bacillary white diarrhea
bacillary white diarrhoea
bacilli
bacilliary
bacillibactin
bacillicidal
bacillicide

Literary usage of Bacillar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1884)
"The Non-bacillar Nature of Abrus-poison. By CJH WARDEN, Surgeon IMS, and LA WADDELL, Surgeon IMS Calcutta: 1884. THE theory that the infusion of the seeds ..."

2. Lectures on syphilis by George Frank Lydston, William A. Walker (1885)
"Harmony of the bacillar theory witn the "physiological pathology" of syphilis. GENTLEMEN:—We take up this morning the most important subject which it is my ..."

3. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1901)
"bacillar, p. 109. t. xxx. f. 8 (1844). ... bacillar, p. 9'5. t. iii. f. 26 (1844). ... bacillar, p. 95. t. xxx. f. 76 (1844). ..."

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