Virovore

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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"Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too."

  2. 2
    An organism which deliberately eats viruses. broadly

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"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Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too."

Etymology

From viro- + -vore.

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