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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.
2. 2
   important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever wordnet

Etymology

From translingual Leptospira, from Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós, “thin”) + σπεῖρα (speîra, “coil”).

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