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- noun Plural form of
filovirida .
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- noun a family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees)
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It was a large filamentous virus that looked like a filoviridae with tiny, cilialike projections.
Invasion Cook, Robin, 1940- 2000
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