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DIPLOCOCCUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: diplococci   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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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