ANDROMEDA STRAIN


Meaning of ANDROMEDA STRAIN in English

an infectious pathogen that mutates unpredictably into new forms and shows extreme resistance to destruction by conventional means.

[ 1970-75; after such a pathogen in a novel of the same name (1969) by U.S. author Michael Crichton (born 1942) ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .