Ascococcus :: Ascococcus (n.) A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci..

Cocculus Indicus :: Cocculus Indicus (n.) The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant..

Coccus :: Coccus (n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.

Coccus :: Coccus (n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti)..

Coccus :: Coccus (n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule..

Cytococcus :: Cytococcus (n.) The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.

Diplococcus :: Diplococcus (n.) A form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. See Micrococcus.

Disoccupation :: Disoccupation (n.) The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.

Echinococcus :: Echinococcus (n.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog..

Floccular :: Floccular (a.) Of or pertaining to the flocculus.

Flocculate :: Flocculate (v. i.) To aggregate into small lumps.

Flocculate :: Flocculate (a.) Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects..

Flocculated :: Flocculated (imp. & p. p.) of Flocculat.

Flocculating :: Flocculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flocculat.

Flocculation :: Flocculation (n.) The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

Flocculence :: Flocculence (n.) The state of being flocculent.

Flocculent :: Flocculent (a.) Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.

Flocculent :: Flocculent (a.) Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.

Flocculi :: Flocculi (pl. ) of Flocculu.

Flocculus :: Flocculus (n.) A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe..

Floccus :: Floccus (n.) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.

Floccus :: Floccus (n.) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.

Floccus :: Floccus (n.) A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.

Gonococcus :: Gonococcus (n.) A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease..

Inoccupation :: Inoccupation (n.) Want of occupation.

Micrococcus :: Micrococcus (n.) A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus..

Occult :: Occult (a.) Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown.

Occult :: Occult (v. t.) To eclipse; to hide from sight.

Occultation :: Occultation (n.) The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries..

Occultation :: Occultation (n.) Fig.: The state of being occult.

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