Rotavirus
See also: rotavirus
Translingual
editEtymology
editNew Latin, from Latin rota (“wheel”) + -virus.
Proper noun
editRotavirus
- A taxonomic genus within the family Reoviridae – RNA viruses, some of which cause acute enteritis in humans.
Hypernyms
edit- (genus): Riboviria - realm; Orthornavirae - kingdom; Duplornaviricota - phylum; Resentoviricetes - class; Reovirales - order; Reoviridae - family; Sedoreovirinae - subfamily
Hyponyms
edit- (genus): Rotavirus A - type species; Rotavirus B, Rotavirus C, Rotavirus D, Rotavirus E, Rotavirus F, Rotavirus G, Rotavirus H, Rotavirus I, Rotavirus J - other species
References
edit- Rotavirus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Rotavirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Rotavirus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Rotavirus at International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
- “Rotavirus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.