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    SPIROCHAETE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animalsplay

    Synonyms:

    spirochaete; spirochete

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("spirochaete" is a kind of...):

    eubacteria; eubacterium; true bacteria (a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spirochaete"):

    treponema (spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws))

    borrelia (cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever)

    Borrelia burgdorferi; Lime disease spirochete (cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes)

    leptospira (important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever)

    Holonyms ("spirochaete" is a member of...):

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

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