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Spirochaetales

noun

higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms

• Syn: ↑order Spirochaetales

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑division Eubacteria

• Member Meronyms: ↑Spirochaetaceae, ↑family Spirochaetaceae, ↑spirochete, ↑spirochaete, ↑Treponemataceae, ↑family Treponemataceae

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\\-ā(ˌ)lēz\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Spirochaeta + -ales

: an order of higher bacteria comprising slender elongated flexuous spiral forms in which the body makes up at least one complete turn of the spiral — compare spirochaetaceae, treponemataceae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.