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Noun: genus Spirillum
  1. A genus of large, elongate, spiral-shaped, rigid, gram-negative bacteria, containing the species Spirillum winogradskyi and Spirillum volutans with standing in nomenclature (Spirillum)

Type of: bacteria genus

Part of: family Spirillaceae, Spirillaceae

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