Streptothrix

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Streptothrix \Strep"to*thrix\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? pliant, bent +
     ? a hair.] (Biol.)
     A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and
     apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.
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