variola minor virus

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   a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent

   Synonymsvariola minor

   Broadervariola virus

Questions about variola minor virus

What does variola minor virus mean?

variola minor virus means "a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent".

What is another word for variola minor virus?

Close synonyms include variola minor. 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 minor virus a common word?

variola minor 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.