Meaning of virus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and that sometimes causes disease in the host organism (such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms)
2. A species thereof
3. An individual particle thereof: synonym of virion
4. A quantity of such infectious agents, considered en masse
5. A disease caused by such an infectious agent; a viral illness

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