Definition of "micrococcus" []

• A spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacterium of the genus Micrococcus, usually occurring in irregular clusters. (noun)

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• "There was the bacillus anthracis; there was the micrococcus; there was the Bacterium termo, and the Bacterium lactis -- that's what turns the goat milk sour even to this day, Hare-Lip; and there were Schizomycetes without end."
• "Humans have a whole garden of specialized human-dwelling bacteria -- tank-car E. coli, balloon-shaped staphylococcus, streptococcus, corynebacteria, micrococcus, and so on."
• "The nitrifying organism has been submitted as yet to but little microscopical study; it is apparently a micrococcus."