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Virion vs Viroids - What's the difference?

virion | viroids |

Viroids is likely misspelled.


Viroids has no English definition.

As a noun virion

is a single individual particle of a virus (the viral equivalent of a cell).

virion

English

Noun

(wikipedia virion) (en noun)
  • (virology) A single individual particle of a virus (the viral equivalent of a cell).
  • Derived terms

    {{der3, naked virion , prion , pseudovirion , virionic}}

    See also

    * capsid ----

    viroids

    Translingual

    Proper noun

    (taxoninfl)
  • A taxonomic name, sometimes considered an order, of a group of subviral agents that can be pathogenic in plants and are implicated in human hepatitis D infections.
  • Hyponyms

    * (group of subviral agents)  - families