SPIROCHAETACEAE

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

family Spirochaetaceae; Spirochaetaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)