ICOSAHEDRAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does icosahedral mean? 

• ICOSAHEDRAL (adjective)
  The adjective ICOSAHEDRAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to an icosahedron

  Familiarity information: ICOSAHEDRAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICOSAHEDRAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to an icosahedron

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

icosahedron (any polyhedron having twenty plane faces)

Derivation:

icosahedron (any polyhedron having twenty plane faces)

 Context examples 

An icosahedral, enveloped virus containing a single molecule of linear double-stranded DNA of 125000 nucleotides that infects only humans.

(Human Herpesvirus 3, NCI Thesaurus)

HSV is a nuclear replicating, icosahedral, enveloped DNA virus.

(Human Herpesvirus 1, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of non-enveloped, capsid covered viruses with T=3 icosahedral symmetry, in the family Caliciviridae.

(Norovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of non-enveloped and spherical viruses with a capsid with T=3 icosahedral symmetry in the Caliciviridae family and Norovirus genus.

(Norwalk Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

A family of non-enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses with an icosahedral capsid.

(Picornavirus, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a non-enveloped, icosahedral virus that contains a single-stranded linear DNA genome; approximately equal proportions of DNA of positive and negative sense are found in separate particles.

(Parvovirus B19, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of non-enveloped, spherical and icosahedral viruses in the Picornaviridae family and Enterovirus genus.

(Echovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

A member of the genus Hepevirus, it is a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus with icosahedral shape that causes Hepatitis E.

(hepatitis E virus, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of non-enveloped, spherical viruses with an icosahedral symmetry of triple capsid structure in the Reoviridae family and Coltivirus genus.

(Colorado Tick Fever Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of non-enveloped, spherical viruses with T=pseudo3 icosahedral capsid, in the family Picornaviridae.

(Aphthovirus, NCI Thesaurus)