virovore
English
Alternative forms
- virivore
Etymology
viro- + -vore
Noun
virovore (plural virovores)
- (biology, ecology, virology) An organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses
- 2020 September 24, Katherine J. Wu, “Nothing Eats Viruses, Right? Meet Some Hungry Protists”, in New York Times:
- Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.
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- (by extension) An organism which deliberately eats viruses.
Coordinate terms
- carnivore
- granivore
- herbivore
- insectivore
- omnivore
Related terms
- virivorous
- virivory
- virovory
See also
- virophage