virovore

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.
  2. An organism which deliberately eats viruses. broadly

词形变化

virovores plural virivore alternative

词汇关系

相关词
virivorous virivory virovory virophage
并列词
carnivore granivore herbivore insectivore omnivore

词源

From viro- + -vore.
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