Etymology

rickettsia

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Today it means: Any of a group of gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by ticks, fleas and lice, that cause typhus and other diseases. Full definition →

translingual Rickettsia
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  1. translingual · borrowed fromRickettsia
  2. English todayrickettsia

Borrowed from translingual Rickettsia (genus name), from Howard Taylor Ricketts, equivalent to Ricketts + -ia.

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