Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gammacoronavirus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gam-ma-coro-n-avirus
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any virus of the genus Gammacoronavirus.

Example Sentences

"While gammacoronaviruses mainly comprise infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) and its closely related bird coronaviruses (CoVs), the only mammalian gammacoronavirus was discovered from a white beluga whale (beluga whale CoV [BWCoV] SW1) in 2008."

Etymology

From the genus name.

Inflected Forms

gammacoronaviruses (plural)

Derived Forms

gammacoronaviral

Questions

What does gammacoronavirus mean?: Any virus of the genus Gammacoronavirus.
Where does gammacoronavirus come from?: From the genus name.

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