reovirus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of a group of RNA viruses, of the family Reoviridae, that infect animals and some plants
Example Sentences
- "The former inclusion of reoviruses in the ECHO group was based originally on their isolation from the stools of human beings, their optimal isolation in monkey kidney tissue culture and the lack of pathogenicity of the initial strains for new-born mice, guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys."