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Webster 1913 Edition

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(lĕp′tō̍-thrĭks)

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

λεπτόσ

small +

θρίξ

hair.]

(Biol.)

A genus of bacteria, characterized by having their filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated.

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Adj.

[See

Noun.

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(Biol.)

Having the form of a little chain; – applied to bacteria when, as in multiplication by fission, they form a chain of filiform individuals.

Leptothrix f