coryneform

[kuh-rin-uh-fawrm]

adjective

having a rodlike or clublike shape.

noun

Bacteriology. any coryneform bacterium, especially a corynebacterium or propionibacterium.

Origin of coryneform

First recorded in 1950–55; coryne(bacterium) + -form

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