Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

choclo virus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: choclo virus
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic New World hantavirus, first isolated in 1999 in western Panama.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In Panama, Choclo virus was identified in patients and in the likely host, Oligoryzomys fulvenscens, in an outbreak that began in January 2000 (144)."

Etymology

The virus was first isolated in 2000 from the spleen of a northern pygmy rice rat captured in Las Tablas, Los Santos, and was named after the El Choclo cantina near the city, its name being from Spanish choclo (“corncob; corn”).

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: choclo

Usage

Inflected Forms

Choclo viruses (plural)

Phrases

Panama fever

Frequently Paired Words

Panama fever

Synonyms

CHOV

Questions

What does choclo virus mean?: A single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic New World hantavirus, first isolated in 1999 in western Panama.
Where does choclo virus come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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