CORONAVIRUS

Proper noun

Coronavirus (plural er-noun)

Alternative letter-case form of coronavirus (“the virus SARS-CoV-2 or the disease COVID-19”)

Anagrams

• carnivorous

Etymology

Noun

coronavirus (countable and uncountable, plural coronaviruses)

(virology) A member of the family Coronaviridae, comprising viruses which infect animals and human beings, and the genome of which consists of a single strand of RNA. [from 1968]

SARS-CoV-2, the specific coronavirus that causes the infectious disease COVID-19.

(medicine) An illness caused by a coronavirus.

COVID-19, the disease caused by the specific coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

Synonyms

• (member of the family Coronaviridae): crown virus (rare)

• (the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2): corona (clipping), rona (clipping)

• (the disease COVID-19): corona (clipping), rona (clipping)

Anagrams

• carnivorous

Source: Wiktionary

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