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shigella
| shigella dysentariae
| shigellosis
| shih-tzu
| shiism
| shiitake
shigella
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun shigella has 1 sense
- shigella(n = noun.animal) Array - rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon; Array is a kind of enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria, entric
is a member of genus shigella
has particulars: shiga bacillus, shigella dysentariae
OXFORD DICTIONARY
shigella, n. any airborne bacterium of the genus Shigella, some of which cause dysentery.
Etymology
mod.L f. K. Shiga, Jap. bacteriologist d. 1957 + dimin. suffix
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