micro-organism vs virus

virus vs micro-organism

micro-organism and virus both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
micro-organism	Yes	No	No	No
virus	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, virus is a hyponym of micro-organism; that is, virus is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than micro-organism:

micro-organism: any organism of microscopic size
virus: (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

Other hyponyms of micro-organism include monad, intestinal flora, moneran, moneron, bacteria, bacterium, bug, germ, microbe, pathogen, protoctist, protist, protistan, microflora.

micro-organism (noun)	virus (noun)
any organism of microscopic size	(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein
	a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
	a harmful or corrupting agency

Difference between micro-organism and virus

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