COCCUS (cocci)

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Irregular inflected form: cocci   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does coccus mean? 

• COCCUS (noun)
  The noun COCCUS has 1 sense:

1. any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria

  Familiarity information: COCCUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCCUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cocci; coccus

Hypernyms ("coccus" is a kind of...):

eubacteria; eubacterium; true bacteria (a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coccus"):

staph; staphylococci; staphylococcus (spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections)

Derivation:

coccal (of or pertaining to or resembling a coccus)

 Context examples 

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium in the phylum Actinobacteria.

(Dermatophilus congolensis, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of aerobic, Gram negative, rod or cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Bacteroidetes and the family Flavobacteriaceae.

(Empedobacter, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium in the phylum Actinobacteria and the family Dermatophilaceae.

(Dermatophilus, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of aerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium in the phylum Actinobacteria.

(Dermacoccus nishinomiyaensis, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of aerobic, Gram positive, rod and cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria.

(Dermabacter hominis, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of aerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium in the phylum Actinobacteria and the family Dermacoccaceae.

(Dermacoccus, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of obligately anaerobic, Gram-positive, cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes.

(Peptococcus niger, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram-positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes.

(Enterococcus avium, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of aerobic, Gram-negative, cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria.

(Neisseria polysaccharea, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of anaerobic, Gram-negative, pseudo-cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes.

(Mycoplasma hominis, NCI Thesaurus)