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

1 sense of retrovirus

Sense 1
retrovirus -- (any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell)
       => animal virus -- (an animal pathogen that is a virus)