rickettsia
See also: Rickettsia
English
Wikispecies
Rickettsia conorii
Etymology
From translingual Rickettsia (genus name), from Howard Taylor Ricketts, equivalent to Ricketts + -ia.
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)
Derived terms
- rickettsial
- rickettsialpox
- rickettsiology
Anagrams
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Romanian
Etymology
From English riekettsia or French rickettsie.
Noun
rickettsia f (plural rickettsii)
- rickettsia
Spanish
Noun
rickettsia f (plural rickettsias)
- rickettsia
Further reading
- “rickettsia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
rickettsia on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es