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virino

virino noun: a hypothetical infectious particle, consisting of nucleic acids in a protective coat of host cell proteins, once theorized to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.

Noun

virino (plural virinos)

  1. A hypothetical infectious particle, consisting of nucleic acids in a protective coat of host cell proteins, once theorized to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.

Forms of virino

pluralvirinos

Questions about virino

What does virino mean?
Virino means a hypothetical infectious particle, consisting of nucleic acids in a protective coat of host cell proteins, once theorized to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.
What part of speech is virino?
Virino is a noun.
What is the plural of virino?
The plural of virino is virinos.

Words near virino in the dictionary

  1. virilocal
  2. virilocality
  3. virilocally
  4. viriloid
  5. viring
  6. virino
  7. virinos
  8. viriome
  9. viriomes
  10. virion
  11. virionic

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