Kraken variant
English
This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.
Alternative forms
- kraken variant, Kraken Variant
Proper noun
Kraken variant (uncountable)
- The highly transmissible XBB.1.5 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. A subvariant of the Omicron variant (“B.1.1.529”). Kraken became the predominant strain in the United States at the end of 2022.
Synonyms
- Kraken
- Kraken lineage
- Kraken strain
- Kraken sublineage
- Kraken subvariant
- XBB.1.5
Hypernyms
- B.1
- B.1.1
- BA.2
- coronavirus
- Omicron variant
- SARS-CoV-2
- SARSr-CoV
- virus
- XBB
- XBB.1
Derived terms
abbreviations, short forms
- Kraken
- kraken
Related terms
- Alpha variant
- Delta variant
- Omicron variant
- Wuhan variant