spirochete
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1. parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria, |
definition | : | a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | treponema, |
definition | : | spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws) (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | borrelia, |
definition | : | cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | borrelia burgdorferi, lime disease spirochete, |
definition | : | cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | leptospira, |
definition | : | important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | order spirochaetales, spirochaetales, |
definition | : | higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms (noun.animal) |
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