TOGAVIRIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Togaviridae mean? 

• TOGAVIRIDAE (noun)
  The noun TOGAVIRIDAE has 1 sense:

1. a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods

  Familiarity information: TOGAVIRIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOGAVIRIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of arboviruses carried by arthropods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Togaviridae" is a kind of...):

arborvirus; arbovirus (a large heterogeneous group of RNA viruses divisible into groups on the basis of the virions; they have been recovered from arthropods, bats, and rodents; most are borne by arthropods; they are linked by the epidemiologic concept of transmission between vertebrate hosts by arthropod vectors (mosquitoes, ticks, sandflies, midges, etc.) that feed on blood; they can cause mild fevers, hepatitis, hemorrhagic fever, and encephalitis)

Meronyms (members of "Togaviridae"):

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

Holonyms ("Togaviridae" is a member of...):

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

 Context examples 

A species of enveloped, spherical or pleomorphic viruses with a capsid with T=4 icosahedral symmetry in the Togaviridae family and Alphavirus genus.

(Barmah Forest Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of enveloped, spherical, or pleomorphic viruses with T=4 icosahedral symmetry, in the family Togaviridae.

(Alphavirus, NCI Thesaurus)