SPIROCHAETALES

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms

Synonyms:

order Spirochaetales; Spirochaetales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)