Virovore
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Virovore is a noun meaning (biology, ecology, virology) An organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses.
Meaning
(biology, ecology, virology) An organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses.
More Meanings
- (by extension) An organism which deliberately eats viruses.
Example Sentences
Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.
Word Forms
- virovores
- virivore
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