Crossword-Solution: BACILLUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bacillus | n. | A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “BACILLUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Tiny rod-shaped organism | 1 answer |
| found primarily in soil | 2 answers |
| Rod-shaped bacterium | 2 answers |
| Microbe | 5 answers |
| Bacterium | 8 answers |
| LIVING organism | 10 answers |
| MICROORGANISM | 17 answers |
| animalcule | 32 answers |
| Bacteria | 35 answers |
| infection | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACILLUS (5)
See Bacterium.] (Biol.) A micro”rganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.
Yet just to look at them must remind a man of what a bacillus of a thing he is--the whole human race like some sprinkling of impalpable powder upon the surface of one of the most insignificant fly-wheels of a monstrous machine.
Come forth, beloved Beranger, and sing me the old song to make me young and strong and brave again! Let them be served on gold-- The wealthy and the great; Two lovers only want A single glass and plate! Ring ding, ring ding, Ring ding ding-- Old wine, young lassie, Sing, boys, sing! XI DIAGNOSIS OF THE BACILLUS LIBRORUM For a good many years I was deeply interested in British politics.
Before the discovery by Robert Koch of the bacillus, we were helpless and hopeless; in an Oriental fatalism we accepted with folded hands a state of affairs which use and wont had made bearable.
Sometimes he called David in, and talked at length and with enthusiasm about such human interest things as the Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus, and the Friedlander bacillus.
Quotes with BACILLUS (3)
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
She’s an absolute idiot!” she added with the wisdom invariably shown by people who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.
Our susceptibility to myth is a world danger. Because the application of science to human behaviour has come so late the myth is regarded as less dangerous than the bacillus. It is doubtful whether such a belief is justified.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1999–2022).