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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

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pl.

Coccobacteria

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[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a grain + NL.

bacterium

. So called from its round shape.]

(Biol.)

One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.