RICKETTSIA

rickettsia

(noun) any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

rickettsia (plural rickettsias or rickettsiae)

Any of a group of gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by ticks, fleas and lice; they cause typhus and other diseases

Hypernyms

• Rickettsia (genus)

• Rickettsieae (tribus)

• Rickettsiaceae (familia)

• Rickettsiales (order)

Anagrams

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Source: Wiktionary

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