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SIV

SIV is the initialism of simian immunodeficiency virus.

SIV is the initialism of swine influenza virus.

SIV is the initialism of special immigrant visa.

Meaning of simian immunodeficiency virus

Noun

simian immunodeficiency virus (plural simian immunodeficiency viruses)

  1. A species of retrovirus that causes persistent infections in several species of African non-human primates.

Forms of SIV

pluralSIVs

Questions about SIV

What is SIV the initialism of?
SIV is the initialism of simian immunodeficiency virus.

Words near SIV in the dictionary

  1. siumai
  2. Siunik
  3. SIUs
  4. Siuslaw
  5. Siuslaws
  6. SIV
  7. siva
  8. Sivaganga
  9. Sivaism
  10. Sivaist
  11. Sivaistic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SIV (page history and authors); simian immunodeficiency virus (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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