Definition of Genus Diplococcus

1. Noun. A genus of bacteria.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Diplococcus

genus Digitalis
genus Digitaria
genus Dillenia
genus Dimetrodon
genus Dimocarpus
genus Dimorphotheca
genus Dinornis
genus Diodon
genus Diomedea
genus Dionaea
genus Dioon
genus Dioscorea
genus Diospyros
genus Diphylla
genus Dipladenia
genus Diplococcus (current term)
genus Diplodocus
genus Diplopterygium
genus Diplotaxis
genus Dipodomys
genus Dipogon
genus Dipsacus
genus Dipsosaurus
genus Dipteronia
genus Dipteryx
genus Dipus
genus Dirca
genus Disa
genus Discina
genus Dodonaea

Literary usage of Genus Diplococcus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Systematic Relationships of the CoccaceŒ: With a Discussion of the by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, Anne (Rogers) Winslow (1908)
"... will be reviewed more fully in Chapter V. It has seemed to us amply sufficient to warrant the recognition of the genus Diplococcus of Weichselbaum, ..."

2. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"... Genus: Diplococcus. Parasites growing poorly, or not at all, on artificial media. Cells usually in pairs of somewhat elongated cells, often capsulated, ..."

3. Microbes, Ferments and Moulds by Édouard Louis Trouessart (1886)
"... the bacteria in the form of an 8—should rather be assigned to the genus Micrococcus, or to the new genus Diplococcus. With respect to the genus Vibrio, ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"With regard to the genus Diplococcus suggested by Weichselbaum for the parasite of pneumonia it should be remembered that any coccus may at times occur in ..."

5. Biological Studies by the Pupils of William Thompson Sedgwick: Published in (1906)
"In the present investigation we have included representatives of only three of these genera. The organisms belonging to the genus Diplococcus do not lend ..."

6. Diseases of the eye: A Practical Treatise for Students of Ophthalmology by George Andreas Berry (1889)
"The shape is not characteristic of the gonococci alone, there being other germs of the same genus (Diplococcus) which are innocuous, and cannot be ..."

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