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girus

noun
/ˈd͡ʒaɪɹəs/

Etymology

Blend of giant + virus; coined by J M Claverie, H Ogata, S Audic, C Abergel, K Suhre, P E Fournier, in a 2006 paper in Virus Research (DOI 10.1016/j.virusres.2006.01.008).

  1. derived from *wisós✻
  2. derived from *weizos✻
  3. derived from vīrus
  4. inherited from virus
  5. compounded as girus — “giant + virus”

Definitions

  1. a type of giant virus, a giant nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus (giant NCLDV)

  2. Synonym of giant virus.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for girus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA