WordNet: 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
- member holonym Rickettsiaceae, family Rickettsiaceae
rickettsia
- (englanti) rickettsial (derivationally related)
- (suomi) riketsia (synonyymi)