Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun animal_virus

1 sense of animal virus

Sense 1
animal virus -- (an animal pathogen that is a virus)
       => 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)