coccoidadj.
/ˈkɒkɔɪd/ Of, or pertaining to, or resembling a coccus.
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vibrionic1850
vibrioid1864
micrococcal1881
gonococcal1888
pneumococcic1891
spirillar1891
pneumococcal1895
pneumococcous1897
streptococcal1897
streptococcic1897
paratyphoid1898
schizomycetic1898
amphitrichous1900
lophotrichous1900
staphylococcal1900
streptococcous1902
streptothricial1903
staphylococcic1904
rhizobial1906
meningococcal1907
meningococcic1907
clostridial1909
botulinum1910
coccoid1912
treponemal1913
Salmonella1916
leptospiral1924
neisserian1925
rickettsial1925
coccal1928
amphitrichate1929
botulinal1939
eubacterial1946
myxococcal1946
coryneform1952
neisserial1955
myxobacterial1957
listerial1961
listeric1961
cyanobacterial1974
1912 J. S. Huxley Individual 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.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 172/2 Coccoid, unicellular, motionless in the vegetative condition, but liberating motile zoospores or gametes.
1949 H. 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.
1964 M. 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.
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