true bacteria vs rickettsia

rickettsia vs true bacteria

true bacteria and rickettsia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
true bacteria	Yes	No	No	No
rickettsia	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rickettsia is a hyponym of true bacteria; that is, rickettsia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than true bacteria:

true bacteria: a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
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

Other hyponyms of true bacteria include B, bacillus, cocci, coccus, coccobacillus, spirilla, spirillum, clostridia, clostridium, botulinum, botulinus, Clostridium botulinum, clostridium perfringens, blue-green algae, cyanobacteria, phototrophic bacteria, phototropic bacteria, pseudomonad, xanthomonad, nitric bacteria, nitrobacteria, nitrosobacteria, nitrous bacteria, thiobacillus, spirillum, vibrio, vibrion, corynebacterium, listeria, enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria, entric, endospore-forming bacteria, chlamydia, mycoplasma, actinomycete, actinomyces, mycobacteria, mycobacterium, gliding bacteria, myxobacter, myxobacteria, myxobacterium, slime bacteria, lactobacillus, strep, streptococci, streptococcus, spirochaete, spirochete.

true bacteria (noun)	rickettsia (noun)
a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella	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

Difference between true bacteria and rickettsia

Words related to "rickettsia"

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.