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cocci

/ˈkɒ.kaɪ/

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What does cocci mean?

noun

  1. plural of coccus
  2. coccidioidomycosis

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈkɒ.kaɪ/

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/ˈkɒ.ki/

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During the present year, however, in the month of July, I came across a community with an unusually large stock of slaves, and I observed a few slaves mingled with their masters leaving the nest, and marching along the same road to a tall Scotch-fir-tree, twenty-five yards distant, which they ascended together, probably in search of aphides or cocci.
Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeProject Gutenberg ebook #1228