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Bacillary

The term bacillary is used in biology and geology.

Biology

Relating to a bacillum, i.e. a rod-shaped bacterium. It can also mean related to Koch's bacillus (tuberculosis).

Geology

A bacillary texture is a cluster of elongated rod-shaped crystals (e.g. tourmaline, aragonite).

Escherichia coli is a bacillary bacterium. © Eric Erbe, Christopher Pooley, USDA, ARS, EMU, Wikimedia, public domain Escherichia coli is a bacillary bacterium. © Eric Erbe, Christopher Pooley, USDA, ARS, EMU, Wikimedia, public domain

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