Filoviridae
noun plural
Fi·lo·vi·ri·dae
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Medical Definition of Filoviridae
: a family of single-stranded RNA viruses that infect vertebrates, that have a pleomorphic usually bacilliform or filamentous shape with a helical nucleocapsid and a lipoprotein envelope with glycoprotein projections, and that include the Ebola viruses and the Marburg virus