-ˌthriks noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from cren- + -thrix
: a genus (the type of the family Crenotrichaceae) usually regarded as including a single species ( C. polypora ) of attached sheathed unbranched chlamydobacteria that are a frequent nuisance in water pipes and iron-containing springs and that have cylindrical or spherical cells which divide in three planes to form nonmotile spherical conidia