Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

virulome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vir-u-lome
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The set of genes that contribute to the virulence of a bacterium.

Example Sentences

"To further assess the virulome, blast score ratio (BSR) analysis was used as previously described to query known virulence genes (S2 Table) and their homologs across all S."

Etymology

From virulence + -ome.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: virulence

Inflected Forms

virulomes (plural)

Derived Forms

metavirulome

Questions

What does virulome mean?: The set of genes that contribute to the virulence of a bacterium.
Where does virulome come from?: From virulence + -ome.

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