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Coccus   Listen
noun
Coccus  n.  (pl. cocci)  
1.
(Bot.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
2.
(Zool.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).
3.
(Biol.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.





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"Coccus" Quotes from Famous Books



... suddenly intent upon dyeing its garments red, nay, as if even the naked savages of the Gold Coast and the tribes of Central Africa were bent on staining their dusky skins with the bodies of the female coccus. ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon


Words linked to "Coccus" :   genus Coccus, true bacteria, eubacteria, staph, staphylococci, cocci, Dactylopius coccus, Coccus hesperidum


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