BORRELIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does borrelia mean? 

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

1. cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BORRELIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

spirochaete; spirochete (parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals)

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

genus Borrelia (small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals)