variola major   (TTS Sound)

The noun variola major has 2 senses

• 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)


• variola major, variola major virus -- (a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent)