coronaviruses
- 1Plural of coronavirus.
Several coronaviruses circulate widely among bats and other mammals.
Researchers compared the spike proteins of two related coronaviruses.
Note
A plural that points back to the broad, family-level meaning: coronaviruses are the many members of Coronaviridae, infecting animals as well as people. The singular can narrow to one virus, SARS-CoV-2, or to the disease COVID-19, but the plural rarely does. Saying "coronaviruses" signals the whole group or several of its members. The ending is the ordinary English -es, not a Latin-style "viri".
coronaviruses is a form of coronavirus
coronavirus, noun: The virus that causes the infectious disease COVID-19, also called SARS-CoV-2. Full entry
- Forms
- coronaviruscoronaviruses plural
- Spelling
- coronavirus → coronaviruses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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