Meanings of coccus in anglès

Strain SB3T is a Gram-positive obligate anaerobic coccus which is non-motile and non-spore forming.

Homologous genes were found in the genome sequences of M. magnetotacticum and magnetic coccus strain MC-1.

In Venezuela, the cactus plants, which grow so abundantly, serve to nourish the valuable though odd-looking little coccus cacti.

This form of suppuration is due to a particular form of bacterium called the pus-causing "chain coccus."

In a similar way we have the pus-causing grape coccus of a golden color (staphylococcus pyogenes aureus).

Streptococcus pyogenes, also known as group A beta-hemolytic strep, is a Gram positive coccus responsible for several million infections every year.

This rough estimate applies to the globular and the egg-shaped bacteria, to which is given the name "coccus" (plural, cocci).

Osteomyelitis is of greater severity, it is believed, if due to a mixed infection with both the white and golden grape-coccus of suppuration.

A total of 24 purified bacterial isolates were found to be Gram-positive (they are coccus and rod under microscope) and were good acid producers.

My pineapples were greatly subject to the attacks of a small, soft-bodied, brown coccus, that was always guarded by a little, black, stinging ant (Solenopsis).

There are many other species of the Coccus tribe in Ceylon, some (Pseudococcus?)

COCCUS.-Thegenus of Insects including the Cochineal.

Of the parasitic Chalcididiæ, many genera of which are well known to deposit their eggs in the soft Coccus, viz.

There is, for instance, the cochineal insect (Coccus), which, in its adult state, has a motionless, shield-shaped body, attached to the leaves of plants.