Definition of rickettsia Rickettsia
rick•ett•si•a
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What does rickettsia mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: rickettsias |
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| rickettsia - 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 | ||
| eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella | ||
| family rickettsiaceae, rickettsiaceae microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates | ||
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Wiktionary 
- rickettsia (Noun)
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.
Part of speech
🔤- rickettsia, noun, singular of rickettsias.
