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/ˈkäkəs/,
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cocci, plural;
  1. Any spherical or roughly spherical bacterium

  1. coccus: any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria
  2. (coccal) of or pertaining to or resembling a coccus
  3. Coccus (plural cocci) can be used to describe any bacterium that has a circular shape. It is one of the three distinct types of bacteria shapes, the other two being bacillus (rod-shaped) and spirillum (spiral-shaped) cells.
  4. (Coccus (insect)) Coccus is scale insect genus in the family Coccidae. It includes species such as Coccus viridis, a major pest of coffee.
  5. (coccus) one of the segments of a distinctly lobed fruit which becomes separate at maturity. Sometimes called a mericarp. pl. cocci
  6. (coccus) (pl: cocci) A spherical bacterium. Cocci may occur singly, in pairs, in groups of four or more, and in cubical packets.
  7. (COCCUS) The genus of Insects including the Cochineal. In these the male is a minute, winged fly, and the female generally a motionless, berry-like mass.
  8. (COCCUS) (kok/cos), an Athenian orator or rhe­ torician, was, according to Suidas (s. v.}, a disciple of Isocrates, and wrote rhetorical discourses (Aa- yovs pTjTOpiKovs). A passage of Quintilian (xiS. ...
  9. (Coccus) (singular): Spherical-shaped cell; cocci (plural).
  10. Usually used to describe the more or less separate lobes in a dehiscent fruit developed from a flower with an apocarpous ovary.
  11. An oxycyt that destroys the lining of the small intestine causing diarrhea and death; (also known as coccidiosis)
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