RICKETTSIAS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • rod-shaped microorganisms resembling both bacteria and viruses
   • live in biting arthropods and cause disease in vertebrate hosts
   Hypernyms(s) rickettsias is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • eubacteria (what does eubacteria mean?)
   • eubacterium (what does eubacterium mean?)
   • true bacteria (what does true bacteria mean?)