Yersinia meaning
A gram-negative bacillus of the genus Yersinia that causes various diseases in animals and humans, including plague.
noun
A gram-negative bacterium of the genus Yersinia that causes various diseases in animals and humans, including plague.
noun
A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.
noun
A taxonomic genus within the family Enterobacteriaceae "” certain bacteria hosted especially by rodents, some pathogenic to humans.
pronoun
Origin of yersinia
- From New Latin Yersinia genus name after Alexandre Émile Jean Yersin (1863–1943), Swiss-born French bacteriologist
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From French Yersin (“a surname") +"Ž -ia; after Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin for the plague bacteria; after Alexander Yersin (entomologist) for the mantis.
From Wiktionary
- After Alexandre Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist, + -ia.
From Wiktionary