TREPONEMA (treponemata)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: treponemata   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does treponema mean? 

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

1. spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREPONEMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

genus Treponema (type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body; parasitic in warm-blooded animals)