• n.
    ⦿(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

Semantic relations

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:virus
wn:interlingual indexili:i42336
wn:eq synonymdn:virus§1

Other

dc:Subjectnoun.animal
skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelvirus