RICKETTSIAL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or caused by rickettsias

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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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)

Derivation:

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)

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