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noun
A single individual particle of a virus (the viral equivalent of a cell).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, microbiology, natural-sciences, virology
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noun
(virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: particle, subatomic particle
History
From French virion. By surface analysis, virus + -on.
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
