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TUMOR VIRUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cell-free filtrate held to be a virus responsible for a specific neoplasm
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tumor virus" is a kind of...):
virus ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tumor virus"):
wound tumor virus; WTV (a tumor virus transmitted by leafhoppers)
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