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Coccobacilli
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Bacterial cellular morphologies.
Coccobacillus
A coccobacillus (plural coccobacilli), or bacillococcus, is a type of bacterium with a shape intermediate between cocci (spherical bacteria) and bacilli (rod-shaped bacteria). Coccobacilli, then, are very short rods which may be mistaken for cocci. The word coccobacillus reflects an intermediate shape between coccus (spherical) and bacillus (elongated).