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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spirillum /spʌɪˈrɪləm/

▶noun (pl. spirilla /-lə/) a bacterium with a rigid spiral structure, found in stagnant water and sometimes causing disease.

– origin mod. L., irregular dimin. of L. spira ‘a coil’.

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