ANIMAL VIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animal virus mean? 

• ANIMAL VIRUS (noun)
  The noun ANIMAL VIRUS has 1 sense:

1. an animal pathogen that is a virus

  Familiarity information: ANIMAL VIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMAL VIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An animal pathogen that is a virus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("animal virus" is a kind of...):

virus ((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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animal virus"):

retrovirus (any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell)

parvo; parvovirus (any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle; not known to be associated with any human disease)

reovirus (any of a group of non-arboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis)

lyssavirus (a neurotropic non-arbovirus of the family Rhabdoviridae that causes rabies)

rhabdovirus (any of a group of arboviruses including those causing rabies)

papovavirus (any of a group of animal viruses associated with or causing papillomas or polyomas)

herpes; herpes virus (any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin)

picornavirus (a group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat)

myxovirus (any of a group of RNA viruses including those that cause influenza and mumps)

adenovirus (any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye)

hepadnavirus (a group of animal DNA viruses including viruses of ducks and woodchucks and squirrels and others as well as the virus causing hepatitis B in humans)

poxvirus (any of a group of viruses that can cause pox diseases in vertebrates)

vesiculovirus (an animal virus that causes vesicular stomatitis)

flavivirus (animal viruses belonging to the family Flaviviridae)

alphavirus (an arbovirus of the family Togaviridae that can cause a variety of encephalitis in horses)

filovirus (animal viruses belonging to the family Filoviridae)

bunyavirus (an animal virus belonging to the family Bunyaviridae; can be used as a bioweapon)

arenavirus (animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae)

 Context examples 

Any of a group of animal viruses associated with or causing papillomas or polyomas.

(Papovavirus, NCI Thesaurus)