Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

poliovirus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English

Syllables: po-liovirus
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family that causes poliomyelitis.

Example Sentences

"By now Jameson, a victim of polio, was confined to a wheelchair; most likely he'd contracted the poliovirus from an East German defector whom he interrogated in 1955."

Etymology

From polio + virus, the first element shortened from poliomyelitis.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: polio
Suffix: virus

Inflected Forms

polioviruses (plural)

Derived Forms

antipoliovirus nonpoliovirus poliovirion

Questions

What does poliovirus mean?: A human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family that causes poliomyelitis.
Where does poliovirus come from?: From polio + virus, the first element shortened from poliomyelitis.

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