variola virus

English Thesaurus

1. the virus that causes smallpox in humans; can be used as a bioweapon (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	poxvirus,
definition	:	any of a group of viruses that can cause pox diseases in vertebrates (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	variola major, variola major virus,
definition	:	a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	variola minor, variola minor virus,
definition	:	a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent (noun.animal)