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HIGHLY INFECTIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does highly infective mean?
• HIGHLY INFECTIVE (adjective)
The adjective HIGHLY INFECTIVE has 1 sense:
1. (of a microorganism) extremely infective
Familiarity information: HIGHLY INFECTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HIGHLY INFECTIVE (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of a microorganism) extremely infective
Context example:
a highly infective organism
Similar:
virulent (infectious; having the ability to cause disease)
Domain category:
micro-organism; microorganism (any organism of microscopic size)
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