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TREPONEMATACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic
Synonyms:
family Treponemataceae; Treponemataceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Treponemataceae" is a kind of...):
bacteria family (a family of bacteria)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("Treponemataceae" is a member of...):
order Spirochaetales; Spirochaetales (higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms)