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spirochete

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(spī′rə kēt′)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
spi•ro•chete  (spī′rə kēt′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Microbiologyany of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
Also, spi′ro•chaete′. 
  • Neo-Latin spīrochaeta. See spiro-2, chaeta-
  • 1875–80
spi′ro•chet′al, spi′ro•che′tic, adj. 

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