Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

papovavirus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pa-po-vavirus
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the former family Papovaviridae, now split into the Papillomaviridae and Polyomaviridae families, of viruses that cause papillomas or polyomas in animals.

Archaic

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

papovaviruses (plural)

Questions

What does papovavirus mean?: Any of the former family Papovaviridae, now split into the Papillomaviridae and Polyomaviridae families, of viruses that cause papillomas or polyomas in animals.

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