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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various nonmotile, rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Shigella, which includes some species that cause dysentery.

Wiktionary

  1. n. bacteriology A bacterium in the genus Shigella, some kinds of which may cause shigellosis a form of dysentery.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon

Etymologies

  1. From the name of Kiyoshi Shiga, the Japanese bacteriologist who studied shigella. (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin Shigella, genus name, after Kiyoshi Shiga (1870-1957), Japanese bacteriologist. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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