virino
English
Noun
virino (plural virinos)
- (biology) A hypothetical infectious particle, consisting of nucleic acids in a protective coat of host cell proteins, once theorized to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.
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Etymology
From viro (“man”) + -ino (“female”).
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /viˈrino/
- Rhymes: -ino
- Hyphenation: vi‧ri‧no
Noun
virino (accusative singular virinon, plural virinoj, accusative plural virinojn)
Hypernyms
- homo (“human being”)
- persono (“person”)
Derived terms
See also
- femino
- homino (“female human being”)
- ino (“female”, noun)
Italian
Verb
virino
- inflection of virare:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative