释义 |
coccoid, a.|ˈkɒkɔɪd| [f. coccus + -oid.] Of, or pertaining to, or resembling a coccus.
1912J. S. Huxley Individ. in Animal Kingdom 159 Botanists distinguish three main types of elementary structure among plants... In the first type (Coccoid), the entire cell, with its cell-wall, divides into two similar and quite separate halves. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 172/2 Coccoid, unicellular, motionless in the vegetative condition, but liberating motile zoospores or gametes. 1949H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics II. xxxi. 1033 When developed young cultures of bacillary forms [of Bartonella bacilliformis] were exposed to penicillin..they tended to become coccoid. 1964M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xvii. 270 The organisms are small cocco-bacilli... As a general rule the predominant form of Br. melitensis is coccoid whilst that of Br. abortus and Br. suis is bacillary. |