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A virus (from the Latin virus meaning toxin or poison) is a sub-microscopic infectious agent that is unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirusA virus (from the Latin virus meaning toxin or poison) is a sub-microscopic infectious agent that is unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell. http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/v/Virus.htmDefinition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary ... Latin virus (? ? venom ? ?). Proper noun http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/VirusThe plural of the word virus. Is it vira or viri or viruses ... Question: What is the plural of virus? Answer: The plural of virus in English is viruses -- at least at the moment. http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/latinlearning/f/virusplural.htm ... still up to date, the plural of the noun virus in Latin is, like the plural nowadays used for virus in Romance languages (e.g., Italian and French), also virus. The Latin noun virus ... http://www.ofb.net/~jlm/virus.htmlNot surprisingly the word virus means "poisonous slime" in Latin. They are very small ? billions fit in one drop of water. They have no means of locomotion, yet ... http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/virushunters.htmlLINGUIST List 15.1540 Thu May 13 2004 Sum: Latin / English Plural of Virus. Editor for this issue: Steve Moran http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-1540.htmlVirus from the latin virus, meaning "poison" Viruses straddle the definition of life. They lie somewhere between supra molecular complexes and very simple biological entities. http://www.dform.com/projects/t4/virus.htmlFrom New Latin: virus + -emia (1946). viremic (adjective). zoonoses: diseases in which pathogens are harbored by other animals as well as by humans ... http://www.westnilevirusfacts.org/glossary.html ... Beijernick - provided evidence that the transmissable agent was not a bacterium; Stanley (1935) - isolated the infectious agent and called it Tobacco Mosaic Virus (virus = latin ... http://trishul.sci.gu.edu.au/courses/ss12bmi/viruses.html |
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