comma bacillus

Noun

Meaning

comma-shaped bacteria that cause Asiatic cholera

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

vibrio comma

Hypernyms

vibrio vibrion

Examples

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus. Marcel Proust

Close letter words and terms

comm comm link comma comma blunder comma boo-boo comma bungle