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VARIOLA VIRUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The virus that causes smallpox in humans; can be used as a bioweapon
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("variola virus" is a kind of...):
poxvirus (any of a group of viruses that can cause pox diseases in vertebrates)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "variola virus"):
variola major; variola major virus (a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent)
variola minor; variola minor virus (a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent)
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