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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A bacillus that is short and oval in shape.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A very short bacillus resembling a coccus, as the coccobacillus of swine-plague.

Wiktionary

  1. n. biology any bacillus that has a short oval shape

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus

Etymologies

  1. cocc(us) + bacillus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Rhococcus equi, a gram-positive bacterium, is a facultative intracellular coccobacillus that causes bronchopneumonia in foals aged 1 to 6 months.”

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