shigella (English, noun)
expansion: shigella (plural shigella or shigellas or shigellae)
Senses:
topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A bacterium in the genus Shigella, some kinds of which may cause a form of dysentery called shigellosis.
Forms:
form: shigella
tags: plural
form: shigellas
tags: plural
form: shigellae
tags: plural