Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like or resembling a coccus; spherical.
- noun A coccoid microorganism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Berry-like; globular: applied to microorganisms.
- noun An aggregation of spores of the blue-green alga Nostoc.
- Resembling a coccus or micrococcus.
- noun A spherical or ovoid bacterium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Microbiol.) spherical; like a coccus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
spherical , shaped like acoccus - noun Something with a coccoid shape.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective spherical; like a coccus
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Examples
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He expanded his work to other carbonaceous meteorites and says he was completely surprised when he began to find the filaments and round coccoid shapes so common to the microbial world of Earthly bacteria.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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He expanded his work to other carbonaceous meteorites and says he was completely surprised when he began to find the filaments and round coccoid shapes so common to the microbial world of Earthly bacteria.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Modern examples including coccoid cyanobacterium which are thought to be descendants of a 1,900 million year old form, thus representing one of the longest continuing biological lineages known.
Shark Bay, Australia 2008
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An estimated 95 percent of the surviving population of native Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana) was destroyed between 1946 and 1951, following the accidental introduction of two coccoid scale insects.
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Our results could be interpreted as evidence that the flagellates released a substance inducing colony formation in Chlorella, similar to predator-induced morphological changes in zooplankton (Dodson, 1989) and in coccoid green algae (Hesssen and van Donk, 1993).
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There is no diurnal morphological change, and the cells are very similar to the coccoid stage cell in cultured strains.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hiroshi Yamashita et al. 2009
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Symbiodinium in culture show daily morphological changes between a flagellated gymnodinioid stage (motile stage) in daylight and a non-flagellated spherical stage (coccoid stage) at night
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hiroshi Yamashita et al. 2009
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Symbiodinium in host animals usually maintain a coccoid morphology
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hiroshi Yamashita et al. 2009
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Symbiodinium can be characterized as follows; (i) five rows of crystalline deposits forming an arc, situated near the sulcus region, (ii) each crystalline layer was 80-130 nm thick, (iii) the cluster could refract and polarize light in the manner of amorphous materials and noticeably deflected UV more than blue or green light, and (iv) they disappeared in the nocturnal coccoid stage.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hiroshi Yamashita et al. 2009
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Maximum transformations to the motile stage and the coccoid stage were estimated to have occurred by 10: 00 and 00: 00 respectively.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hiroshi Yamashita et al. 2009
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