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varment |
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any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable |
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vibrio |
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curved rodlike motile bacterium, first discovered as part of the cholera outbreak but several other pathological species exist |
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vibrion |
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curved rodlike motile bacterium, first discovered as part of the cholera outbreak but several other pathological species exist |
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virus |
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(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts |
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virus |
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a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer |
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virus |
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a harmful or corrupting agency |
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varicella zoster virus |
Noun
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the member of the herpes virus family that is responsible for chickenpox |
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virion |
Noun
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a complete viral particle |
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vesiculovirus |
Noun
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an animal virus that causes vesicular stomatitis |
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variola virus |
Noun
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the virus that causes smallpox in humans |
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variola major |
Noun
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a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent |
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variola major |
Noun
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a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars |
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variola major virus |
Noun
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a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent |
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variola minor |
Noun
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a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent |
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variola minor |
Noun
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a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus |
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variola minor virus |
Noun
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a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent |
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viroid |
Noun
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the smallest of viruses |
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virusoid |
Noun
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the smallest of viruses |
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vector |
Noun
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(genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell |
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vector |
Noun
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a variable quantity that can be resolved into components |
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vector |
Noun
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any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease |
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vector |
Noun
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a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction |
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vorticella |
Noun
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any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk |
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vitellus |
Noun
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nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo, especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg |
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vitelline sac |
Noun
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a membranous structure that functions as the circulatory system in mammalian embryos until the heart becomes functional |
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vesper sparrow |
Noun
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common North American finch noted for its evening song |
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vermillion flycatcher |
Noun
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tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona |
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veery |
Noun
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a tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song |
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verdin |
Noun
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very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America |
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vireo |
Noun
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any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color |
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vulture |
Noun
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any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion |
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vulture |
Noun
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someone who attacks in search of booty |
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varan |
Noun
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any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia |
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velociraptor |
Noun
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small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops |
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viperine grass snake |
Noun
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a small harmless grass snake |
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viper |
Noun
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a venomous snake from the family Viperidae |
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viper |
Noun
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a person who is considered dangerous |
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vine snake |
Noun
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a slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia |
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vinegarroon |
Noun
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a large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed |
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varied Lorikeet |
Noun
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a lorikeet with a colorful coat |
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vane |
Noun
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the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft |
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vane |
Noun
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flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water |
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vane |
Noun
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a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it |
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vane |
Noun
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mechanical device attached to an elevated structure |
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valve |
Noun
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one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods |
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valve |
Noun
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the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs |
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valve |
Noun
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a control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid |
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valve |
Noun
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a device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone |
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valve |
Noun
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a structure in a hollow organ, like the heart, with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it |
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villus |
Noun
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a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane |