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VIRINO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("virino" is a kind of...):
particle; subatomic particle (a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions)
Domain category:
microbiology (the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans)
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