Coccus vs. Bacillus

Coccusnoun

Any approximately spherical bacterium.

Coccusnoun

One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.

Coccusnoun

One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.

Coccusnoun

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

Coccusnoun

A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.

Coccusnoun

any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria

Bacillusnoun

Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.

Bacillusnoun

Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacteria.

Bacillusnoun

A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

Bacillusnoun

aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

Bacillus

Bacillus (Latin ) is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria, a member of the phylum Firmicutes, with 266 named species. The term is also used to describe the shape (rod) of certain bacteria; and the plural Bacilli is the name of the class of bacteria to which this genus belongs.