noun
higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms
• Syn: ↑Spirochaetales
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑division Eubacteria
• Member Meronyms: ↑Spirochaetaceae, ↑family Spirochaetaceae, ↑spirochete, ↑spirochaete, ↑Treponemataceae, ↑family Treponemataceae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.