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HIGHLY INFECTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does highly infective mean? 

HIGHLY INFECTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective HIGHLY INFECTIVE has 1 sense:

1. (of a microorganism) extremely infectiveplay

  Familiarity information: HIGHLY INFECTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIGHLY INFECTIVE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a microorganism) extremely infective

Context example:

a highly infective organism

Similar:

virulent (infectious; having the ability to cause disease)

Domain category:

micro-organism; microorganism (any organism of microscopic size)


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