variola major virus

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   a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent

   Synonymsvariola major

   Broadervariola virus

Questions about variola major virus

What does variola major virus mean?

variola major virus means "a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent".

What is another word for variola major virus?

Close synonyms include variola major. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is variola major virus a common word?

variola major virus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.