SPIROCHAETACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spirochaetaceae mean? 

• SPIROCHAETACEAE (noun)
  The noun SPIROCHAETACEAE has 1 sense:

1. large coarsely spiral bacteria; free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters

  Familiarity information: SPIROCHAETACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPIROCHAETACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large coarsely spiral bacteria; free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Spirochaetaceae; Spirochaetaceae

Hypernyms ("Spirochaetaceae" is a kind of...):

bacteria family (a family of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "Spirochaetaceae"):

genus Spirochaeta; Spirochaeta (the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae; a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic)

Holonyms ("Spirochaetaceae" is a member of...):

order Spirochaetales; Spirochaetales (higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms)

 Context examples 

A genus of aerobic, Gram-negative, spiral shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Spirochaetes and the family Spirochaetaceae.

(Borrelia, NCI Thesaurus)