coccus

See also: Coccus and -coccus

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin coccum, from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰɑkəs]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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Wikipedia

coccus (plural cocci)

1. Any approximately spherical bacterium.
2. One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.

Derived terms

• -cocci
• coccic
• coccicidal
• coccicide
• coccoidal
• coccous
• -coccus
• diplococcus
• megacoccus
• pentacoccous

Translations

type of bacterium

Bulgarian: кока (bg) f (koka) Catalan: coc (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 球菌 (zh) (qiújūn) Czech: kok (cs) m Finnish: kokki (fi), pallobakteeri (fi) French: coccus (fr) m Georgian: კოკი (ḳoḳi) German: Kokke (de) f Hindi: गोलाणु m (golāṇu) Italian: cocco (it) m Japanese: 球菌 (ja) (きゅうきん, kyūkin) Korean: 구균(球菌) (ko) (gugyun) Polish: ziarniak m Portuguese: coco (pt) m Romanian: coc (ro) m Russian: кокк (ru) m (kokk) Spanish: coco (es) m Tagalog: bilugishay Vietnamese: cầu khuẩn (vi)

See also

• Oxycoccus