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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
• air tickets
Source: Wiktionary
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