microorganism vs virus

virus vs microorganism

microorganism and virus both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
microorganism	Yes	No	No	No
virus	Yes	No	No	No

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

microorganism: 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 microorganism include monad, intestinal flora, moneran, moneron, bacteria, bacterium, bug, germ, microbe, pathogen, protoctist, protist, protistan, microflora.

microorganism (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 microorganism and virus

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