shigella

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ʃɪˈɡɛlə/

Definition of shigella

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

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

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Etymology

After Kiyoshi Shiga, the Japanese bacteriologist who studied shigella.

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