shigella dysentariae

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   a bacillus that causes dysentery

   Synonymsshiga bacillus

   Broadershigella

Questions about shigella dysentariae

What does shigella dysentariae mean?

shigella dysentariae means "a bacillus that causes dysentery".

What is another word for shigella dysentariae?

Close synonyms include shiga bacillus. 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 shigella dysentariae a common word?

shigella dysentariae 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.