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coccoid

ADJECTIVE
  1. spherical; like a coccus
    a coccoid microorganism

How To Use coccoid In A Sentence

  • Samples from subaqueous orange sinter deposits around the pool margin appear to be dominated by small coccoid cells, 500 nm to 1 m in diameter, and rods c.1 m long.
  • a coccoid microorganism
  • Examination of the sinters by scanning electron microscopy confirms that they are laminated and contain an abundant, low-diversity assemblage of filamentous, bacilliform, and coccoid microbes.
  • Aim To testify the pathogenicity of coccoid Helicobacter pylori in vivo.
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