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HYPERON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("hyperon" is a kind of...):
baryon; heavy particle (any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hyperon"):
lambda hyperon; lambda particle (an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin 1)
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