Unscramble

b 3 a 1 c 3 i 1 l 1 l 1 u 1 s 1

8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

originLearned borrowing from Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”), diminutive of baculum (“stick, staff, walking stick”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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