POLIOVIRUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The virus causing poliomyelitis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("poliovirus" is a kind of...):

enterovirus (any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system))

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