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GENUS LEPTOSPIRA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very slender aerobic spirochetes; free-living or parasitic in mammals
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Leptospira" is a kind of...):
bacteria genus (a genus of bacteria)
Meronyms (members of "genus Leptospira"):
leptospira (important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever)
Holonyms ("genus Leptospira" is a member of...):
family Treponemataceae; Treponemataceae (small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic)
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