Cocci in a sentence as a noun

As it turns out the word coccia comes from the Latin cochlea, which is a snail shell. Even after having taught Latin for 40 years, she didn't know the word...

As a natural selection factor it will lead to flourishing microbal cultures which are 1000x times more deadly than current cocci.

Cocci definitions

noun

any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria

See also: coccus