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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of viruses whose nucleic acid core is composed of RNA, including the retroviruses and picornaviruses.
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- noun Any of many viruses that possess
ribonucleic acid as theirgenetic material and do notreplicate usingDNA
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