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bunyavirus

bunyavirus noun: any of the Bunyaviridae, a family of negative-stranded RNA viruses, now most typically in genus Orthobunyavirus in family Peribunyaviridae, but also in all families in order Bunyavirales.

bunyavirus: any of the Bunyaviridae, a family of negative-stranded RNA viruses, now most typically in genus...
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Noun

bunyavirus (plural bunyaviruses)

  1. (archaic) Any of the Bunyaviridae, a family of negative-stranded RNA viruses, now most typically in genus Orthobunyavirus in family Peribunyaviridae, but also in all families in order Bunyavirales.

Forms of bunyavirus

pluralbunyaviruses

Origin of bunyavirus

From Bunyamwera, a town in Western Uganda where one of the viruses was first isolated.

Questions about bunyavirus

What does bunyavirus mean?
Bunyavirus means any of the Bunyaviridae, a family of negative-stranded RNA viruses, now most typically in genus Orthobunyavirus in family Peribunyaviridae, but also in all families in order Bunyavirales.
What part of speech is bunyavirus?
Bunyavirus is a noun.
What is the plural of bunyavirus?
The plural of bunyavirus is bunyaviruses.

Words near bunyavirus in the dictionary

  1. Bunyanian
  2. Bunyard
  3. Bunyards
  4. bunyas
  5. bunyaviral
  6. bunyavirus
  7. bunyaviruses
  8. bunyip
  9. bunyip aristocracy
  10. bunyip bird
  11. bunyip birds

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