| NOUN | animal | coccus, cocci | any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria |
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| Sounds | kaa'kahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria. | |
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| Synonym | cocci | |
| Narrower | staphylococcus, staphylococci, staph | Spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies |
| Broader | eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria | A large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls |
| Spanish | coccus, coco, estafilococos | |
| Catalan | coccus, coc | |
| Adjectives | coccal | of or pertaining to or resembling a coccus |
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