VIRULENCY

virulence, virulency

(noun) extreme hostility; “the virulence of the malicious old man”

virulence, virulency

(noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease); “the virulence of the plague”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

virulency (countable and uncountable, plural virulencies)

Dated form of virulence.

Source: Wiktionary


Vir"u*lence, Vir"u*len*cy, n. Etym: [Cf. F. virulence, L. virulentia an offensive odor, a stench.]

1. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.

2. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities of the other. I. Taylor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ACERVULUS

(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi


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