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    FAMILY SPIROCHAETACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Large coarsely spiral bacteria; free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oystersplay

    Synonyms:

    family Spirochaetaceae; Spirochaetaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Spirochaetaceae" is a kind of...):

    bacteria family (a family of bacteria)

    Meronyms (members of "family Spirochaetaceae"):

    genus Spirochaeta; Spirochaeta (the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae; a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic)

    Holonyms ("family Spirochaetaceae" is a member of...):

    order Spirochaetales; Spirochaetales (higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms)

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