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COCCOBACILLUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("coccobacillus" 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 "coccobacillus"):
Brucella (an aerobic Gram-negative coccobacillus that causes brucellosis; can be used as a bioweapon)
Context examples:
A species of aerobic, Gram negative, coccobacilli shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria.
(Coxiella burnetii, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of facultatively anaerobic, gram negative, coccobacilli shaped bacteria in the Phylum Proteobacteria.
(Chromobacterium violaceum, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of obligately aerobic, Gram positive, coccobacilli shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria and the family Micrococcaceae.
(Arthrobacter, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of aerobic, Gram-negative, coccobacilli shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria and the family Alcaligenaceae.
(Bordetella, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of facultatively anaerobic, gram positive, coccobacilli shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria.
(Arcanobacterium bernardiae, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, coccobacilli shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria.
(Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, coccobacilli shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria and the family Pasteurellaceae.
(Aggregatibacter, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of aerobic, Gram-negative, coccobacilli shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria.
(Bordetella bronchiseptica, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of bacteria within the phylum Proteobacteria consisting of gram-negative aerobic coccobacillus that are the causative agent of pertussis.
(Bordetella pertussis, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of aerobic, Gram negative, coccobacilli shaped bacterium in the phylum Proteobacteria and the family Neisseriaceae.
(Chromobacterium, NCI Thesaurus)
