DIPLOCOCCUS (diplococci)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: diplococci   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does diplococcus mean? 

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

1. Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIPLOCOCCUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

bacteria; bacterium ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants)

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

Diplococcus pneumoniae; pneumococcus (bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans)

Holonyms ("diplococcus" is a member of...):

genus Diplococcus (a genus of bacteria)

 Context examples 

A species of anaerobic, Gram-negative, diplococci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria.

(Neisseria cinerea, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Neisseria flavescens, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative, diplococci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria.

(Neisseria canis, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of Gram-negative, aerobic, strongly oxidase-positive diplococci bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria.

(Neisseria, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of anaerobic, Gram negative, diplococci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes.

(Acidaminococcus fermentans, 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 gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive diplococcus bacteria within the phylum Proteobacteria that causes upper respiratory tract infections, particularly in immunocompromised hosts.

(Moraxella catarrhalis, NCI Thesaurus)