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coryneform

[kuh-rin-uh-fawrm]

adjective

  1. having a rodlike or clublike shape.



noun

  1. Bacteriology.any coryneform bacterium, especially a corynebacterium or propionibacterium.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of coryneform1

First recorded in 1950–55; coryne(bacterium) + -form

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