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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A group of genera of filiform bacteria with elongated cylindrical joints, isolated, or united into more or less extended chains. It includes the genera Bacillus, Leptothrix, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural See microbacteria.

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