vibrio

See also: Vibrio

English
Vibrio cholerae by flagellar stain.

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

vibrio (plural vibrios)

  1. Any of several bacteria, of the genus Vibrio, shaped like a curved rod.
    • 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎:
      "He dips it into the poison and they are gone. Our Gardener is, in my opinion, about to dip the solar system, and the human bacillus, the little mortal vibrio which twisted and wriggled upon the outer rind of the earth, will in an instant be sterilized out of existence."
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