coccus in English

noun
1
any spherical or roughly spherical bacterium.
Major and limb-threatening infections may involve aerobic gram positive cocci , gram negative bacilli, anaerobes, and enterococci.
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1. Spherical Bacteria are known as cocci in plural, and coccus in singular

2. The food colorant is also called Cochineal extract, which comes from the insect species Dactylopius coccus Costa

3. Carmine is a natural colorant derived from the Cochineal insect Dactylopius Coccus Costa which grows on cacti in Central and South America

4. Cochineal definition, a red dye prepared from the dried bodies of the females of the Cochineal insect, Dactylopius coccus, which lives on cactuses of Mexico, Central …

5. What does Axin mean? (medicine) A fatty and varnish-like substance produced in Mexico by an insect, Coccus Axinus, used in the arts and local

6. Carmine (cochineal extract from Dactylopius coccus costa) is a red colored dye extracted from insects native to South America and Mexico that live as parasites on cactus plants

7. Cochineal, red dyestuff consisting of the dried, pulverized bodies of certain female scale insects, Dactylopius coccus, of the Coccidae family, cactus-eating insects native to tropical and subtropical America

8. French Coqueter from Coquet flirtatious man diminutive of coq cock from Old French coc from Late Latin coccus cock 1 From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition Borrowing …

9. Coccus ; Antitoxinum vibriosepticum against the Clos-tridium, commonly known as " vibrion septique." Anti-pneumococcus sera for Type I and for Type II are described, and the dosage by intravenous injection in each instance is 50,000 to 150,000 units

10. The Cochineal (dactylopius coccus), is a slate bug that feeds on the prickly pear grown throughout Mexico, South America, the southwestern United States and the Canary islands off the coast of Spain.The male Cochineal plays its own unique role in nature, but it's the wingless, legless female that interests dye makers

11. Cochineal is a red dye called carmine (E 120) or carminic acid that is obtained from the dried bodies of female Cochineal insects (Dactylopius coccus Costa insects) 1).Cochineal extract [carmine (E 120) or carminic acid] is used directly in food and is also processed further to carmines.