ARENAVIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arenavirus mean? 

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

1. animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARENAVIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

animal virus (an animal pathogen that is a virus)

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

Junin virus (the RNA virus that causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever; carried by rats and mice)

Lassa virus (the RNA virus that causes Lassa fever)

lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (the RNA virus that causes lymphocytic choriomeningitis; infects mice and monkeys and dogs and guinea pigs and human beings)

Machupo virus (the RNA virus that causes Bolivian hemorrhagic fever; carried by rats and mice)

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

Arenaviridae (a family of arborviruses carried by arthropods)

 Context examples 

A species of single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses in the genus arenavirus and family arenaviridae.

(Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus, NCI Thesaurus)