genus borrelia

English Thesaurus

1. small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bacteria genus,
definition	:	a genus of bacteria (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	borrelia,
definition	:	cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	borrelia burgdorferi, lime disease spirochete,
definition	:	cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family treponemataceae, treponemataceae,
definition	:	small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic (noun.animal)