PLANOCOCCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Planococcus mean? 

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

1. a genus of Pseudococcidae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANOCOCCUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Pseudococcidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Planococcus; Planococcus

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

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Planococcus"):

citrus mealybug; Planococcus citri (feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus)

Holonyms ("Planococcus" is a member of...):

family Pseudococcidae; Pseudococcidae (scalelike insects: mealybugs)

 Context examples 

Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Planococcus genus level.

(Planococcus, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A taxonomic family of Gram positive bacterium in the phylum Firmicutes that includes the genera Kurthia, Planococcus, and Lysinibacillus, among others.

(Planococcaceae, NCI Thesaurus)