Word.ws English Dictionary

ribodeoxyvirus

ribodeoxyvirus noun: a virus whose virion contains both RNA and DNA.

Noun

ribodeoxyvirus (plural ribodeoxyviruses)

  1. A virus whose virion contains both RNA and DNA

Forms of ribodeoxyvirus

pluralribodeoxyviruses

Origin of ribodeoxyvirus

From ribo- + deoxy- + virus or ribo(virus) + deoxyvirus.

Questions about ribodeoxyvirus

What does ribodeoxyvirus mean?
Ribodeoxyvirus means a virus whose virion contains both RNA and DNA.
What part of speech is ribodeoxyvirus?
Ribodeoxyvirus is a noun.
What is the plural of ribodeoxyvirus?
The plural of ribodeoxyvirus is ribodeoxyviruses.

Words near ribodeoxyvirus in the dictionary

  1. ribobases
  2. ribociclib
  3. ribocil
  4. ribodeme
  5. ribodemes
  6. ribodeoxyvirus
  7. ribodeoxyviruses
  8. ribodeplete
  9. ribodepleted
  10. ribodepletion
  11. riboendonuclease

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ribodeoxyvirus (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ribodeoxyvirus.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ribodeoxyvirus. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.