PAPOVAVIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does papovavirus mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPOVAVIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

animal virus (an animal pathogen that is a virus)

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

human papilloma virus (any of a group of papovaviruses associated with genital or oral carcinomas or a group associated with benign genital tumors)

polyoma; polyoma virus (a virus the can initiate various kinds of tumors in mice)