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gallid

gallid adjective: affecting chickens; applied to certain alphaherpesviruses.

Adjective

gallid (not comparable)

  1. Affecting chickens; applied to certain alphaherpesviruses.

Origin of gallid

From Latin gallus (“cock, rooster”) + -id.

Questions about gallid

What does gallid mean?
Gallid means affecting chickens; applied to certain alphaherpesviruses.
What part of speech is gallid?
Gallid is an adjective.

Words near gallid in the dictionary

  1. Gallick
  2. Gallicness
  3. gallicolous
  4. gallicrow
  5. gallicrows
  6. gallid
  7. gallidermin
  8. gallied
  9. Gallien
  10. Gallienus
  11. gallies

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