virovore
nounEtymology From viro- + -vore.
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Biology, Ecology, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Virology An organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses
- Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.2020 September 24, Katherine J. Wu, “Nothing Eats Viruses, Right? Meet Some Hungry Protists”, in New York Times:
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Broadly An organism which deliberately eats viruses.
- Related terms
- virivorous, virivory, virovory, virophage
- Coordinate terms
- carnivore, granivore, herbivore, insectivore, omnivore