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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024spi•ro•chete (spī′rə kēt′),USA pronunciation n. - 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
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