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    FAMILY TREPONEMATACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenicplay

    Synonyms:

    family Treponemataceae; Treponemataceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    bacteria family (a family of bacteria)

    Meronyms (members of "family Treponemataceae"):

    genus Treponema (type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body; parasitic in warm-blooded animals)

    genus Borrelia (small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals)

    genus Leptospira (very slender aerobic spirochetes; free-living or parasitic in mammals)

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

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

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