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coccoid

coccoid adjective: spherical, shaped like a coccus.

Adjective

coccoid (comparative more coccoid, superlative most coccoid)

  1. spherical, shaped like a coccus
    • ( C ) Field emission SEM image of a coccoid bacterium on a 0.02-µm Anopore filter viewed at a magnification of ×150,000 in the decontaminated ice melt.1999 December 10, “Microorganisms in the Accreted Ice of Lake Vostok, Antarctica”, in Science, volume 286, number 5447, →DOI, pages 2144–2147

Noun

coccoid (plural coccoids)

  1. Something with a coccoid shape.

Forms of coccoid

Adjective
comparativemore coccoid
superlativemost coccoid
Noun
pluralcoccoids

Origin of coccoid

From coccus + -oid.

Questions about coccoid

What does coccoid mean?
Coccoid means spherical, shaped like a coccus.
What part of speech is coccoid?
Coccoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near coccoid in the dictionary

  1. coccobacillus
  2. coccobacteria
  3. coccobacterial
  4. coccobacterium
  5. coccochromatic
  6. coccoid
  7. coccoidal
  8. coccoidean
  9. coccoideans
  10. coccoids
  11. coccolite

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