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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various irregularly coiled helical spirochetes of the genus Borrelia, some species of which cause relapsing fever in humans, other mammals, and birds.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of various helically coiled spirochetes, of the genus Borrelia, some of which cause relapsing fever.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever

Etymologies

  1. For Amédée Borrel, French bacteriologist (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin, after Amédée Borrel (1867-1936), French bacteriologist. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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