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Definition of Genus Diplococcus
1. Noun. A genus of bacteria.
Group relationships: Family Lactobacillaceae, Family Lactobacteriaceae, Lactobacillaceae, Lactobacteriaceae
Member holonyms: Diplococcus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Diplococcus
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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