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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Cŏc'cus, n.

noun

Cŏc'cus, n.; pl. cŏc'çī. [Gr. κόκκος, berry. See COCHINEAL.] 1. (Bot.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit. Gray. 2. (Zoöl.) A genus of insects, called scale-insects, as the plant-lice, the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti), and the like. Baird.