vibrio
See also: Vibrio
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
vibrio (plural vibrios)
- Any of several bacteria, of the genus Vibrio, shaped like a curved rod.
- 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt:
- "He dips it into the poison and they are gone. Our Gardener is, in my opinion, about to dip the solar system, and the human bacillus, the little mortal vibrio which twisted and wriggled upon the outer rind of the earth, will in an instant be sterilized out of existence."
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