GENUS BORRELIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Borrelia mean? 

• GENUS BORRELIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS BORRELIA has 1 sense:

1. small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals

  Familiarity information: GENUS BORRELIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS BORRELIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

bacteria genus (a genus of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "genus Borrelia"):

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)

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

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