virovore en · NOUN
Etymology
From viro- + -vore.
Meanings
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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Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.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:
- (broadly) An organism which deliberately eats viruses.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| virovores | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| virivore | alternative | lexicographic |
Coordinates
omnivore · herbivore · granivore · insectivore · carnivore
Relateds
virovory · virivorous · virophage · virivory