Coccus
['kɒkəs] or ['kɑkəs]
Definition
(n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
(n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).
(n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.
Editor: Theresa
Definition
n. one of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit: (zool.) a genus of insects in the order Hemiptera and type of a family including many forms injurious to plants and a few others useful to man.—n. Cocc′ulus a tropical genus of climbing plants (Menispermace).—Cocculus Indicus a drug consisting of the dried fruit of Anamirta cocculus having narcotic and poisonous properties—yielding picrotoxin.
Typist: Pearl