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COCCI

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria

Synonyms:

cocci; coccus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cocci" 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 "cocci"):

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

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 Context examples: 

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

(Peptococcus niger, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Peptostreptococcaceae.

(Peptostreptococcus, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of aerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Planococcaceae.

(Planococcus, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Peptococcaceae.

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

(Mycoplasma hominis, 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-positive, cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes.

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

(Enterococcus avium, NCI Thesaurus)