coccobacilliform

adjective

coc·​co·​bacilliform

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: resembling a coccobacillus

—used especially of certain small bacillary organisms recovered chiefly from respiratory infections of poultry and regarded as related to the pleuropneumonia group

Word History

Etymology

New Latin coccobacillus + English -iform

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