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DIPLOCOCCUS
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Irregular inflected form: diplococci
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("diplococcus" is a kind of...):
bacteria; bacterium ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diplococcus"):
Diplococcus pneumoniae; pneumococcus (bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans)
Holonyms ("diplococcus" is a member of...):
genus Diplococcus (a genus of bacteria)
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