Cocci is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 16 anagrams from letters in cocci (cccio).
1755-65; New Latin Greek kókkos grain, seed, berry
A genus of schizomycetes in which the cocci are arranged in strings or in chains.
Nearly all cocci are immotile, while the bacilli may or may not be.
Dicoccous (fruit), splitting into two cocci or closed carpels.
Others have reported similar results in which cocci have been found very similar to those occurring in the udder.
Tetra- (in words of Greek composition), four; as, Tetracoccous, of four cocci.
As a result there may be a variety of cell groupings among the cocci.
If the scales are not detached, but remain fixed to the bark, it may be asked, How are the cocci to find their way out?
Freudenreich found the most common types to be cocci, belonging to both the liquefying and non-liquefying class.
By this orifice the cocci are enabled to escape from the detached scales.
This rough estimate applies to the globular and the egg-shaped bacteria, to which is given the name "coccus" (plural, cocci).