lime disease spirochete

English Thesaurus

1. cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	spirochaete, spirochete,
definition	:	parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus borrelia,
definition	:	small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals (noun.animal)