• n.
    ⦿any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease
    lexical concept
  • aphids are transmitters of plant diseases
  • fleas are vectors of the plague
  • mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever
  • when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:transmitter
  2. enl:vector
wn:interlingual indexili:i86382

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labeltransmittervector