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

1 sense of baryon

Sense 1
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)
       => hadron -- (any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles)
       => fermion -- (any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle)