ARENAVIRIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arenaviridae mean? 

• ARENAVIRIDAE (noun)
  The noun ARENAVIRIDAE has 1 sense:

1. a family of arborviruses carried by arthropods

  Familiarity information: ARENAVIRIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARENAVIRIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of arborviruses carried by arthropods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

arborvirus; arbovirus (a large heterogeneous group of RNA viruses divisible into groups on the basis of the virions; they have been recovered from arthropods, bats, and rodents; most are borne by arthropods; they are linked by the epidemiologic concept of transmission between vertebrate hosts by arthropod vectors (mosquitoes, ticks, sandflies, midges, etc.) that feed on blood; they can cause mild fevers, hepatitis, hemorrhagic fever, and encephalitis)

Meronyms (members of "Arenaviridae"):

arenavirus (animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae)

Junin virus (the RNA virus that causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever; carried by rats and mice)

Lassa virus (the RNA virus that causes Lassa fever)

lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (the RNA virus that causes lymphocytic choriomeningitis; infects mice and monkeys and dogs and guinea pigs and human beings)

Machupo virus (the RNA virus that causes Bolivian hemorrhagic fever; carried by rats and mice)

Holonyms ("Arenaviridae" is a member of...):

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

 Context examples 

A species of single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses in the genus arenavirus and family arenaviridae.

(Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of negative-sense, single-stranded, RNA viruses of the family Arenaviridae that are spherical in shape and enveloped in a lipid membrane.

(Arenavirus, NCI Thesaurus)