retrovirus
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
- Click any word to expand it.
Senses
Sense 1 noun
any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell
Types & categories
- animal virus hypernym
- human T-cell leukemia virus-1 hyponym
- human immunodeficiency virus hyponym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | animal virus |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | human T-cell leukemia virus-1 |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | human immunodeficiency virus |