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virovores

virovores is the plural of virovore.

Meaning of virovore

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Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.2020 September 24, Katherine J. Wu, “Nothing Eats Viruses, Right?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.

Questions about virovores

What is virovores the plural of?
Virovores is the plural of virovore.

Words near virovores in the dictionary

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

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