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Definition of Genus Spirillum

1. Noun. A genus of bacteria.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Spirillum

Literary usage of Genus Spirillum

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

1. Protozoölogy by Gary Nathan Calkins (1909)
"29th Genus. Spirillum: Animal e familia ... and the genus spirillum was the rigidity or inflexibility of the latter as against the flexibility of the former ..."

2. A Text-book of general pathology for the use of students and practitioners by James Martin Beattie (1908)
"There seems now very little doubt that the organism of relapsing fever must be regarded as a bacterium of the genus Spirillum, and not as one of the ..."

3. Micro-organisms with Special Reference to the Etiology of the Infective Diseases by Karl Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Flügge, Carl Flügge (1890)
"In the meantime, however, it appears desirable on practical grounds to group together in the genus spirillum those curved bacilli in which a development of ..."

4. General Pathology by Ernst Ziegler (1908)
"The genus Spirillum is characterized by the formation of short, stiff, shallow spirals, which in part possess flagella and show an active swarming movement. ..."

5. Microbiology for Agricultural and Domestic Science Students by Charles Edward Marshall, Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1911)
"Genus: Spirillum EHRENBERG. The cells are rigid, usually long and forming long, screw-like threads, or, in some cases, only portions of a spiral turn. ..."

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