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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a group of small viruses that contain DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and cause disease in many vertebrates, especially mammals such as dogs and cattle.

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  • noun any single-stranded DNA viruses, of the genus Parvovirus, being the smallest found in nature; they infect only mammals

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  • noun any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle; not known to be associated with any human disease

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin parvus, small; see pau- in Indo-European roots + virus.]

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