bacillary

1. 1.

   relating to or produced by or containing bacilli

   Synonymsbacillar

   biology

2. 2.

   formed like a bacillus

   Synonymsbacillarbacilliformbaculiformrod-shaped

   Similarformed

Questions about bacillary

What does bacillary mean?

bacillary means "relating to or produced by or containing bacilli". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bacillary?

bacillary has 4 syllables: ba-cil-la-ry. The stress falls on "cil".

What is another word for bacillary?

Close synonyms include bacillar, bacillar, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bacillary a common word?

bacillary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.