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polioviruses

polioviruses is the plural of poliovirus.

Meaning of poliovirus

Noun

poliovirus (plural polioviruses)

  1. A human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family that causes poliomyelitis.
    • By now Jameson, a victim of polio, was confined to a wheelchair; most likely he'd contracted the poliovirus from an East German defector whom he interrogated in 1955.2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 299

Questions about polioviruses

What is polioviruses the plural of?
Polioviruses is the plural of poliovirus.

Words near polioviruses in the dictionary

  1. polioviral
  2. poliovirion
  3. poliovirions
  4. poliovirology
  5. poliovirus
  6. polioviruses
  7. poliphagous
  8. poliplicate
  9. Poliquin
  10. Poliquins
  11. polis

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