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Escherichia coli

[ esh-uh-rik-ee-uh koh-lahy ]

/ ˌɛʃ əˈrɪk i ə ˈkoʊ laɪ /

noun Bacteriology.

a species of rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the large intestine of humans and other animals, sometimes pathogenic.

Origin of Escherichia coli

< New Latin, named after T. Escherich (died 1911), German physician; see -ia

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