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

1 sense of virino

Sense 1
virino -- ((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)
       => particle, subatomic particle -- (a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions)