COCCOBACILLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coccobacillus mean? 

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

1. a bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCCOBACILLUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("coccobacillus" 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 "coccobacillus"):

Brucella (an aerobic Gram-negative coccobacillus that causes brucellosis; can be used as a bioweapon)

 Context examples 

A genus of Gram negative, coccobacilli shaped bacterium in the phylum Proteobacteria and the family Pasteurellaceae.

(Histophilus, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of aerobic, Gram negative, coccobacilli shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria.

(Haemophilus haemoglobinophilus, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of Gram-negative, pleomorphic, coccobacilli bacteria belonging to the Proteobacteria phylum.

(Haemophilus, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of aerobic, Gram negative, coccobacilli shaped bacterium in the phylum Proteobacteria.

(Francisella tularensis, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of aerobic or facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, rod and coccobacilli shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria.

(Kingella oralis, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the Moraxellaceae family ocurring as short rods, coccobacilli or diplococci.

(Moraxella, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of obligately anaerobic, Gram-positive, coccobacillus shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes.

(Peptostreptococcus anaerobius, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative, coccobacillus shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria.

(Pasteurella pneumotropica, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of Gram-negative, non-motile coccobacillus in the phylum Actinobacteria.

(Pasteurella multocida, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of aerobic, gram negative, coccobacilli shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria and the family Alcaligenaceae.

(Oligella, NCI Thesaurus)