Escherichia-coli
[esh-uh-rik-ee-uh koh-lahy] /ˌɛʃ əˈrɪk i ə ˈkoʊ laɪ/
noun, Bacteriology.
1.
a species of rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the large intestine of humans and other animals, sometimes pathogenic.
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