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GENUS LEPTOSPIRA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Leptospira mean?
• GENUS LEPTOSPIRA (noun)
The noun GENUS LEPTOSPIRA has 1 sense:
1. very slender aerobic spirochetes; free-living or parasitic in mammals
Familiarity information: GENUS LEPTOSPIRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very slender aerobic spirochetes; free-living or parasitic in mammals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
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)
Context examples
A contagious bacterial infection caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
(Leptospirosis, NCI Thesaurus)
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