HEPADNAVIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hepadnavirus mean? 

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

1. a group of animal DNA viruses including viruses of ducks and woodchucks and squirrels and others as well as the virus causing hepatitis B in humans

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEPADNAVIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of animal DNA viruses including viruses of ducks and woodchucks and squirrels and others as well as the virus causing hepatitis B in humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

animal virus (an animal pathogen that is a virus)