Noun variola major has 2 senses
  1. smallpox, variola, variola major - a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
    --1 is a kind of pox
    --1 has parts: pock
    --1 has particulars:
     alastrim, variola minor, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, milk pox, white pox, West Indian smallpox, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox
  2. variola major, variola major virus - a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent
    --2 is a kind of variola virus, smallpox virus
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