family spirochaetaceae

1. 1.

   large coarsely spiral bacteria; free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters

   SynonymsSpirochaetaceae

   Broaderbacteria family

   Part ofSpirochaetales

Questions about family spirochaetaceae

What does family spirochaetaceae mean?

family spirochaetaceae means "large coarsely spiral bacteria; free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters".

What is another word for family spirochaetaceae?

Close synonyms include Spirochaetaceae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family spirochaetaceae a common word?

family spirochaetaceae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.