Coccus

1. n. A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.
2. n. One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
3. n. A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.