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virovore

virovore noun: an organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses.

Noun

virovore (plural virovores)

  1. An organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses
    • Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.2020 September 24, Katherine J. Wu, “Nothing Eats Viruses, Right? Meet Some Hungry Protists”, in New York Times
  2. (broadly) An organism which deliberately eats viruses.

Forms of virovore

pluralvirovores
alternative formvirivore

Origin of virovore

From viro- + -vore.

Questions about virovore

What does virovore mean?
Virovore means an organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses.
What part of speech is virovore?
Virovore is a noun.
What is the plural of virovore?
The plural of virovore is virovores.

Words near virovore in the dictionary

  1. virotypes
  2. virous
  3. Virovitica
  4. Virovitica-Podravina
  5. Virovitičko-podravska
  6. virovore
  7. virovores
  8. virovory
  9. Virrat
  10. Virrueta
  11. Virruetas

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