Meanings
nounvirovore (plural virovores)
plural virovores · alternative virivore
- biologyAn organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses
Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.
2020 September 24, Katherine J. Wu, “Nothing Eats Viruses, Right? Meet Some Hungry Protists”, in New York Times - broadlyAn organism which deliberately eats viruses.
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