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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea;
[syn: gonococcus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gonococcus \Gon`o*coc"cus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? semen, the genitals + NL. & E. coccus.] (Med.) A microorganism (Neisseria gonnorrhoeae) of the genus Neisseria (formerly Micrococcus), found in the secretion in gonorrhea, and constituting the cause of this disease. [1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gonococcus n 1: the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea [syn: gonococcus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae]