COCCI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cocci mean? 

• COCCI (noun)
  The noun COCCI has 1 sense:

1. any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria

  Familiarity information: COCCI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCCI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cocci; coccus

Hypernyms ("cocci" is a kind of...):

eubacteria; eubacterium; true bacteria (a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cocci"):

staph; staphylococci; staphylococcus (spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections)

 Context examples 

A species of anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes.

(Finegoldia magna, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of aerobic, Gram negative, rod and cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria and the family Franciscellaceae.

(Francisella, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Bacillales XI.

(Gemella, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Clostridiales XI.

(Finegoldia, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Ruminococcaceae.

(Faecalibacterium, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of aerobic, Gram negative, rod or cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Bacteroidetes.

(Empedobacter brevis, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium in the phylum Firmicutes and the family Aerococcaceae.

(Abiotrophia, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Aerococcaceae.

(Facklamia, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of facultatively anaerobic, Gram variable, cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Aerococcaceae.

(Globicatella, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic family of Gram positive, cocci shaped bacterium, which are found in the air and on the skin, in the phylum Actinobacteria that includes the genera Arthrobacter, Kocuria, and Micrococcus, among others.

(Micrococcaceae, NCI Thesaurus)