GENUS COCCUS

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Coccidae

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Coccus" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Coccus"):

brown soft scale; Coccus hesperidum (pest on citrus trees)

Holonyms ("genus Coccus" is a member of...):

Coccidae; family Coccidae (scale insects)

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