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Webster 1913 Edition
Coccus
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1.
(Bot.)
One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
2.
(Zool.)
A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (
Coccus cacti
). 3.
(Biol.)
A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.
Definition 2024
Coccus
Coccus
Translingual
Coccus hesperidum
Proper noun
Coccus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Coccidae – some scale insects.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Paraneoptera - clades; Condylognatha - superorder; Hemiptera - order; Sternorrhyncha - suborder; Coccoidea - superfamily; Coccidae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Coccus hesperidum - type species; for others see
Coccus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies