Word.ws English Dictionary

leptospira

leptospira noun: any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.

Noun

leptospira (plural leptospiras or leptospirae)

  1. Any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.

Forms of leptospira

pluralleptospiras
pluralleptospirae

Origin of leptospira

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

Words formed from leptospira

Questions about leptospira

What does leptospira mean?
Leptospira means any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.
What part of speech is leptospira?
Leptospira is a noun.
What is the plural of leptospira?
The plural of leptospira is leptospiras.

Words near leptospira in the dictionary

  1. leptosomic
  2. leptospermone
  3. leptospermum
  4. leptospermums
  5. leptosphaeriaceous
  6. leptospira
  7. leptospirae
  8. leptospiraemia
  9. leptospiraemic
  10. leptospiral
  11. leptospiras

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: leptospira (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “leptospira.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/leptospira. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.