TUMOR VIRUS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cell-free filtrate held to be a virus responsible for a specific neoplasm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tumor virus" is a kind of...):

virus ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tumor virus"):

wound tumor virus; WTV (a tumor virus transmitted by leafhoppers)

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