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spirochæta |
spirochæte |
spirochaeta |
spirochaetaceae |
spirochaetales |
spirochaete
| spirochete
| spirodela
| spirodela polyrrhiza
| spirogram
| spirograph
spirochaete
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spirochaete has 1 sense
- spirochaete(n = noun.animal) spirochete - parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals; Array is a kind of eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria
is a member of order spirochaetales, spirochaetales
has particulars: treponema, borrelia, borrelia burgdorferi, lime disease spirochete, leptospira
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spirochaete, n. (US spirochete) any of various flexible spiral-shaped bacteria.
Etymology
SPIRO-(1) + Gk khaite long hair
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