vira
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 7
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Definition of vira
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(form-of, plural, rare)plural of virus
“Seeing, however, that neither virus Ordinary, Tzaneen, nor Bulawayo protected completely against horse-sickness in the various parts of the Transvaal I now decided to make a combination of the two vira and to add to it the third virus, Bulawayo.”
“Then the idea occurred to unite all these various vira and to obtain in this way a polyvalent virus which would protect against any of the vira of which it was composed, and by this means I hoped to reduce the mortality in practice.”
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noun
-
(form-of, plural, rare)plural of virus
“Seeing, however, that neither virus Ordinary, Tzaneen, nor Bulawayo protected completely against horse-sickness in the various parts of the Transvaal I now decided to make a combination of the two vira and to add to it the third virus, Bulawayo.”
“Then the idea occurred to unite all these various vira and to obtain in this way a polyvalent virus which would protect against any of the vira of which it was composed, and by this means I hoped to reduce the mortality in practice.”
name
- A transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name diminutive Віра (Vira).
- A barangay of Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From translingual Vira or New Latin vīra.
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