shi·gel·la
n 1 cap : a genus of nonmotile aerobic bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae that form acid but no gas on many carbohydrates and that cause dysenteries in animals and esp. humans 2 pl -gel*lae also -gellas : any bacterium of the genus Shigella .
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