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cowdria

\\ˈkau̇drēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Edmund V. Cowdry b1888 American scientist + New Latin -ia

: a genus of small pleomorphic intracellular rickettsias known chiefly from ticks but including the causative organism (C. ruminantium) of heartwater disease of ruminants

Useful english dictionary. 2012.