canine parvovirus

noun

: parvovirus sense 2

A pup from their litter died on Aug. 24, and a necropsy found that it died of canine parvovirus, a contagious disease that is often fatal to domestic and wild canines.

—The Albuquerque Tribune

also : the virus causing this disease

Although the protein coat (capsid) of canine parvovirus includes a core structural motif that has frequently been observed in RNA viruses, the arrangement of the motif differs considerably from anything known previously.

—David J. Filman and James M. Hogle, Nature