Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun borrelia_burgdorferi

1 sense of borrelia burgdorferi

Sense 1
Borrelia burgdorferi, Lime disease spirochete -- (cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes)
       => spirochete, spirochaete -- (parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals)