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oncoviruses

oncoviruses is the plural of oncovirus.

Meaning of oncovirus

Noun

oncovirus (plural oncoviruses)

  1. A virus that can cause cancer.
    • Human oncoviruses soon followed and it became apparent that whole classes of cancer, such as cervical cancer, were indeed caused partly by viral infection.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 234

Questions about oncoviruses

What is oncoviruses the plural of?
Oncoviruses is the plural of oncovirus.

Words near oncoviruses in the dictionary

  1. oncovaccine
  2. oncovaccines
  3. oncovin
  4. oncoviral
  5. oncovirus
  6. oncoviruses
  7. ONCs
  8. onct
  9. oncula
  10. Ondaatje
  11. ondansetron

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oncoviruses (page history and authors); oncovirus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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