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

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