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RICKETTSIAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or caused by rickettsias
Classified under:
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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