English Explanatory Dictionary

mirusvirus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A virus of the phylum Mirusviricota, a widespread group of plankton-infecting viruses which forms a "missing link" between giant viruses and herpesviruses.

Word forms

mirusvirus mirusviruses

Etymology

From Latin mīrus (“wonderful, surprising, strange”) + virus.

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