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

an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin 1

any of a group of three unstable baryons containing a strange quark and having a positive, neutral, or negative electric charge and a mass from 2,328 to 2,343 times that of an electron.

A baryon consisting of three strange quarks and having a negative electric charge; it has a mass 3,273 times that of the electron.

either of two baryons that contain two strange quarks and have a neutral or negative charge; they have masses of 2,573 and 2,586 times that of the electron respectively.