corona-virus
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.38 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "[T]he replication of the corona-virus and the herpes-simplex virus is blocked by cystatin C [...]"
- "It took four months to identify the culprit of the new disease as a virus of the corona-virus family that had jumped to infect humans from wild small animals handled and consumed as food in the Guangdong province of China."
- "Especially dangerous are corona-viruses, general factors of "common cold" and reoviruses particularly pestilent for pancreas."