Associations to the word «Yersinia»

Wiktionary

YERSINIA, 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.
YERSINIA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Enterobacteriaceae   — certain bacteria hosted especially by rodents, some pathogenic to humans.
YERSINIA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Mantidae   — the single species Yersinia mexicana.
YERSINIA PESTIS, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Enterobacteriaceae   — the plague bacillus, causative agent of the bubonic plague.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats