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virinos

virinos is the plural of virino.

Meaning of virino

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.

Questions about virinos

What is virinos the plural of?
Virinos is the plural of virino.

Words near virinos in the dictionary

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

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