Orientia
Translingual
Etymology
New Latin, from Latin oriēns (“sunrise; east”) + -ia (taxonomic suffix).
Proper noun
Orientia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Rickettsiaceae – certain rickettsial bacteria.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom; Proteobacteria - phylum; Alphaproteobacteria - class; Rickettsiales - order; Rickettsiaceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Orientia tsutsugamushi - type species; Orientia chuto - selected other species
References
- Orientia in the Genome Taxonomy Database