virovore

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Etymology

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viro- +‎ -vore

Noun

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virovore (plural virovores)

  1. (biology, ecology, virology) An organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses
    • 2020 September 24, Katherine J. Wu, “Nothing Eats Viruses, Right? Meet Some Hungry Protists”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.
  2. (by extension) An organism which deliberately eats viruses.

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