| NOUN | animal | diplococcus | Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs |
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| Meaning | Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs. | |
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| Member of | genus Diplococcus | A genus of bacteria |
| Narrower | pneumococcus, Diplococcus pneumoniae | bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans |
| Broader | bacteria, bacterium | (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission |
| Spanish | diplococo | |
| Catalan | diplococ | |
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