Definitions for coccus

coccus coc·cus

Spelling: [kok-uh s]
IPA: /ˈkɒk əs/

Coccus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in coccus (cccosu).

Definitions for coccus

noun

  1. Bacteriology. a spherical bacterium.
  2. Botany. one of the carpels of a schizocarp.

Origin of coccus

1755-65; New Latin Greek kókkos grain, seed, berry

Examples for coccus

In the males of the species of coccus there is no mouth at all.

Three of the four coccus forms were classified as M. luteus.

It is the product of an insect called coccus cacti, which lives on a species of cactus.

From some unknown cause, the Winter Majetin apple enjoys the great advantage of not being infested by the coccus.

The genus brachytarsus is parasitic on coccus, and the grub, not the imago, is the enemy of the white wax insect.

It exudes when the branches are pierced by an insect called the coccus ficus.

A coccus forming such a chain of cells is called strepto-coccus (chain-coccus).

Each of these moving creatures was a white wax insect—the coccus pe-la of Westwood.

They are often distinguished also by the name of coccus radicum.

Conn observed a coccus form in bitter cream that was able to impart a bitter flavor to milk.

Word Value for coccus
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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