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WNV

WNV is the initialism of West Nile virus.

Meaning of West Nile virus

Noun

West Nile virus (usually uncountable, plural West Nile viruses)

  1. (usually) A particular flavivirus that causes West Nile fever, dangerous to humans.
    • West Nile virus surfaced in New York in 1999 and within four years had covered the whole of America.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 371

Questions about WNV

What is WNV the initialism of?
WNV is the initialism of West Nile virus.

Words near WNV in the dictionary

  1. wnt
  2. wntd
  3. Wntless
  4. Wnuk
  5. Wnuks
  6. WNV
  7. WNW
  8. wo
  9. wo'n't
  10. wo/man
  11. wo/men

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Adapted from Wiktionary: WNV (page history and authors); West Nile 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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