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sphero- +‎ bacteria

Noun

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spherobacteria pl (plural only)

  1. (dated) spherical bacteria, such as those in the genus Micrococcus.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spherobacteria”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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