Viroid

Word VIROID
Character 6
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Definitions and meanings of "Viroid"

What do we mean by viroid?

An infectious particle, similar to but smaller than a virus, that consists solely of a strand of RNA and is capable of causing disease in plants. noun

Plant pathogens, of the order Viroidales, that consist of just a short section of RNA but without the protein coat typical of viruses noun

Human pathogen, most notably hepatitis D. noun

The smallest of viruses; a plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat noun

A short section of RNA but without the protein coat typical of viruses, that are plant pathogens

Certain defective viruses, such as hepatitis D, a human pathogen.

Viroid Urban Dictionary

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The word "viroid" in example sentences

Locking her arms around the doctor despite his indignant yelp, she whirled him away from the entrance and beyond the snaking grasp of one of the viroid creatures. ❋ Graf, L. A. (1996)

"You've got a shipload of viroid life-forms outside draining our power systems, and I've got a Trill symbiont in the infirmary who says it can help us." ❋ Graf, L. A. (1996)

"What we have here isn't an Andorian who's been infected by some alien virus's DNAwe have a viroid life-form that's absorbed an Andorian's genetic code for its own selective usage." ❋ Graf, L. A. (1996)

For the moment, symptomatic treatment was in order, then detailed analysis of the virus or viroid. ❋ Diane Duane (1993)

If you find so much as a pre-biotic spherule, a pseudo-membranous configuration, even a viroid aggregate, the show's off. ❋ VONDA N.McINTYRE (1990)

In fact, it turned out that a disease that had nearly wiped out the American mum industry in the mid-1950s had been caused by a viroid of their own. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The enzymes use the viroid as a template to make a new viroid progeny. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(For some reason, no one has found an animal viroid.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet that's enough genetic information to let a viroid infect a plant and replicate itself by taking advantage of the enzymes the plant uses to replicate its DNA. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Vacuolar apoplastic localization leaf tissue tomato plants infested citrus exocortis viroid; vitro synthesis processing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Nor would I think anyone could consider a single molecule of non-coding RNA doesn’t make any proteins to be “alive”, yet there is a reproductive pathogen called a “viroid” that is just that. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"And Jadzia got so much radiation damage that she separated from Dax and sacrificed herself to lead the rest of the viroid aliens away. ❋ Graf, L. A. (1996)

extremly [small] [viruses] of [plants] ❋ Anonymous (2003)

All those Viroids [gathering] together, causing a [super spreader] [event]. ❋ AhtSix (2020)

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