"micrococcus" meaning in English

See micrococcus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: micrococci [plural]
Etymology: micro- + -coccus Etymology templates: {{confix|en|micro|coccus}} micro- + -coccus Head templates: {{en-noun|micrococci}} micrococcus (plural micrococci)
  1. (biology) Any of a group of spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Micrococcus, that are wide-ranging and harmless. Wikipedia link: micrococcus Categories (topical): Biology Derived forms: micrococcal, micrococcologist Related terms: coccus Translations (bacterium of the genus Micrococcus): μικρόκοκκος (mikrókokkos) [masculine] (Greek), micrococco [masculine] (Italian)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for micrococcus meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "micro",
        "3": "coccus"
      },
      "expansion": "micro- + -coccus",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "micro- + -coccus",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "micrococci",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "micrococci"
      },
      "expansion": "micrococcus (plural micrococci)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with micro-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -coccus",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Biology",
          "orig": "en:Biology",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "micrococcal"
        },
        {
          "word": "micrococcologist"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of a group of spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Micrococcus, that are wide-ranging and harmless."
      ],
      "id": "en-micrococcus-en-noun-7Odb8gbt",
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "spherical",
          "spherical"
        ],
        [
          "aerobic",
          "aerobic"
        ],
        [
          "gram-positive",
          "gram-positive"
        ],
        [
          "bacteria",
          "bacterium"
        ],
        [
          "Micrococcus",
          "Micrococcus#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) Any of a group of spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Micrococcus, that are wide-ranging and harmless."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "coccus"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "mikrókokkos",
          "sense": "bacterium of the genus Micrococcus",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "μικρόκοκκος"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "bacterium of the genus Micrococcus",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "micrococco"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "micrococcus"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "micrococcus"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "micrococcal"
    },
    {
      "word": "micrococcologist"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "micro",
        "3": "coccus"
      },
      "expansion": "micro- + -coccus",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "micro- + -coccus",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "micrococci",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "micrococci"
      },
      "expansion": "micrococcus (plural micrococci)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "coccus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 4-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms prefixed with micro-",
        "English terms suffixed with -coccus",
        "en:Biology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of a group of spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Micrococcus, that are wide-ranging and harmless."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "spherical",
          "spherical"
        ],
        [
          "aerobic",
          "aerobic"
        ],
        [
          "gram-positive",
          "gram-positive"
        ],
        [
          "bacteria",
          "bacterium"
        ],
        [
          "Micrococcus",
          "Micrococcus#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) Any of a group of spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Micrococcus, that are wide-ranging and harmless."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "micrococcus"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "mikrókokkos",
      "sense": "bacterium of the genus Micrococcus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "μικρόκοκκος"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "bacterium of the genus Micrococcus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "micrococco"
    }
  ],
  "word": "micrococcus"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.