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COCCUS
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Irregular inflected form: cocci
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria
Synonyms:
cocci; coccus
Classified under:
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 anaerobic, Gram-positive, cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes.
(Parvimonas micra, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of Gram positive, cocci shaped, lactic acid bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Lactobacillaceae.
(Pediococcus, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Peptococcaceae.
(Peptococcus, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of aerobic, Gram negative, rod and coccus shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria.
(Cupriavidus pauculus, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of aerobic, Gram positive, rod and cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria and the family Dermabacteraceae.
(Dermabacter, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes.
(Aerococcus urinae, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes.
(Aerococcus viridans, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of aerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Aerococcaceae.
(Aerococcus, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of aerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Planococcaceae.
(Planococcus, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes.
(Abiotrophia defectiva, NCI Thesaurus)
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