TREPONEMA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: treponemata   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

spirochaete; spirochete (parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals)

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

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

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