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

1 sense of hyperon

Sense 1
hyperon -- (any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron)
       => 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)