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SPIROCHAETALES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Spirochaetales mean?
• SPIROCHAETALES (noun)
The noun SPIROCHAETALES has 1 sense:
1. higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms
Familiarity information: SPIROCHAETALES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
order Spirochaetales; Spirochaetales
Hypernyms ("Spirochaetales" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("Spirochaetales" is a member of...):
division Eubacteria (one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella)
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