Micrococcus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MICROCOCCUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a small spherical bacterium
• a spherical bacterium found on dead or decaying organic matter.
• A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus.
• type genus of the family Micrococcaceae
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a small spherical bacterium; any of a genus (Micrococcus) of gram-positive chiefly harmless bacteria that typically occur in irregular clusters

Words related to MICROCOCCUS

micrococcal21 micrococci20

How to use MICROCOCCUS in a sentence

• To cite only those whose origin is well known, we may mention the bacterium that causes charbon, the micrococcus of chicken cholera, and that of hog measles.
• A physician examined after death the body of a person who died from infection with a very virulent micrococcus and in the course of the examination slightly scratched a finger.
• This disease is caused by a small micrococcus, the organisms joined in pairs.

Similar words containing COCCU without suffix s and without prefix micro

coccus12 gonococcus17 diplococcus20 cryptococcus25 echinococcus23 enterococcus18 pneumococcus22 meningococcus22 streptococcus21 staphylococcus28 eleutherococcus24

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