tumor virus

English Thesaurus

1. a cell-free filtrate held to be a virus responsible for a specific neoplasm (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	virus,
definition	:	(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	wound tumor virus, wtv,
definition	:	a tumor virus transmitted by leafhoppers (noun.animal)