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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
rickettsiaceae is a noun meaning "microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates". It carries one recorded sense.
microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rickettsiaceae come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.