Crossword-Solution: COCCUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Coccus | n. | One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit. |
| Coccus | n. | A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti). |
| Coccus | n. | A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule. |
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| Oval bacterium | 1 answer |
| Spherical bacterium | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COCCUS (5)
Lubbock has shown a degree of variability in these main nerves in Coccus, which may almost be compared to the irregular branching of the stem of a tree.
Reliquos omitto, ne nimius sim.’ Ugolinus Verinus, ‘de illustratione urbis Florentiae’ says of the simplicity of the good old time: ‘Non externis advecta Britannis Lana erat in pretio, non concha aut coccus in usu.’ [837] Comp.
Andrew Knight found in one variety or species of the apple which was not in the least attacked by coccus, and another variety has been observed in South Australia.
The female coccus, whilst young, attaches itself by its proboscis to a plant; sucks the sap, but never moves again; is fertilised and lays eggs; and this is its whole history.
There is, for instance, the cochineal insect (Coccus), which, in its adult state, has a motionless, shield-shaped body, attached to the leaves of plants.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1981–2019).