bəˈrelēə, -rēl-, -lyə noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Amédée Borrel + New Latin -ia
1. capitalized : a genus of small flexible spirochetes (family Treponemataceae) parasitic upon man and warm-blooded animals, having three to five large wavy spirals and a terminal filament, and including several important pathogens (as B. anserina, the cause of septicemia in chickens, B. recurrentis, the cause of European relapsing fever, and B. duttoni, the cause of the relapsing fever of Africa)
2. -s : a spirochete of the genus Borrelia