GENUS LEPTOSPIRA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Very slender aerobic spirochetes; free-living or parasitic in mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Leptospira" is a kind of...):

bacteria genus (a genus of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "genus Leptospira"):

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

Holonyms ("genus Leptospira" is a member of...):

family Treponemataceae; Treponemataceae (small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic)

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