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legionella

noun

Etymology

From legion + translingual -ella, from Latin legio. Constructed from "American Legion", after an outbreak of a then-unknown "mystery disease" (Legionnaires' disease) at a convention of the American Legion in Philadelphia in 1976.

  1. derived from legio

Definitions

  1. Bacteria of the genus Legionella.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for legionella. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA