spirillum

English Thesaurus

1. any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria, eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria,
definition	:	a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella (noun.animal)

2. spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	ratbite fever bacterium, spirillum minus,
definition	:	a bacterium causing ratbite fever (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus spirillum,
definition	:	a genus of bacteria (noun.animal)