genus borrelia

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   small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals

   Broaderbacteria genus

   Part ofTreponemataceae

Questions about genus borrelia

What does genus borrelia mean?

genus borrelia means "small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals".

Is genus borrelia a common word?

genus borrelia 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.