family rickettsiaceae

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1. microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bacteria family,
definition	:	a family of bacteria (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus rickettsia,
definition	:	can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	rickettsia,
definition	:	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 (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	order rickettsiales, rickettsiales,
definition	:	pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms (noun.animal)