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9 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water
noun any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form
originFrom the genus name, from Latin spira (“coil”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0