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gammacoronavirus

gammacoronavirus noun: any virus of the genus Gammacoronavirus.

Noun

gammacoronavirus (plural gammacoronaviruses)

  1. Any virus of the genus Gammacoronavirus.
    • While gammacoronaviruses mainly comprise infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) and its closely related bird coronaviruses (CoVs), the only mammalian gammacoronavirus was discovered from a white beluga whale (beluga whale CoV [BWCoV] SW1) in 2008.2014 January, Patrick C. Y. Woo, “Discovery of a novel bottlenose dolphin coronavirus reveals a distinct species of marine mammal coronavirus in Gammacoronavirus”, in Journal of Virology, volume 88...

Forms of gammacoronavirus

pluralgammacoronaviruses

Origin of gammacoronavirus

From the genus name.

Words formed from gammacoronavirus

Questions about gammacoronavirus

What does gammacoronavirus mean?
Gammacoronavirus means any virus of the genus Gammacoronavirus.
What part of speech is gammacoronavirus?
Gammacoronavirus is a noun.
What is the plural of gammacoronavirus?
The plural of gammacoronavirus is gammacoronaviruses.

Words near gammacoronavirus in the dictionary

  1. gammacameras
  2. gammachirp
  3. gammacism
  4. gammacismus
  5. gammacoronaviral
  6. gammacoronavirus
  7. gammacoronaviruses
  8. gammadia
  9. gammadion
  10. gammadions
  11. gammaencephalography

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