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spirilla

spirilla is the plural of spirillum.

Meaning of spirillum

Noun

spirillum (plural spirillums or spirilla)

  1. Any of various aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, having an elongated spiral form and bearing a tuft of flagella.
  2. Any of various other spiral-shaped microorganisms.

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Questions about spirilla

What is spirilla the plural of?
Spirilla is the plural of spirillum.

Words near spirilla in the dictionary

  1. spiriferinid
  2. spiriferoid
  3. spiriferous
  4. spirifers
  5. spiriform
  6. spirilla
  7. spirillar
  8. spirillary
  9. spirillinid
  10. spirilloid
  11. spirillosis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spirilla (page history and authors); spirillum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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