1. any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1; [syn: baryon, heavy particle]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
heavy particle
n 1: any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or
greater than that of a proton and that participate in
strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1
[syn: baryon, heavy particle]