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COCCUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: cocci   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria

Synonyms:

cocci; coccus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

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 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)