ORDER SPIROCHAETALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Spirochaetales mean? 

• ORDER SPIROCHAETALES (noun)
  The noun ORDER SPIROCHAETALES has 1 sense:

1. higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms

  Familiarity information: ORDER SPIROCHAETALES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER SPIROCHAETALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Spirochaetales; Spirochaetales

Hypernyms ("order Spirochaetales" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Spirochaetales"):

family Spirochaetaceae; Spirochaetaceae (large coarsely spiral bacteria; free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters)

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

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

Holonyms ("order Spirochaetales" is a member of...):

division Eubacteria (one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella)