enterovirus
noun
enterovirus is a noun meaning “Any of many viruses, of the genus Enterovirus, that infect the gastrointestinal tract” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-T-E-R-O-V-I-R-U-S, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of enterovirus is enteroviruses.
What does enterovirus mean?
noun
- 1
Any of many viruses, of the genus Enterovirus, that infect the gastrointestinal tract
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of enterovirus
- enteroviruses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is enterovirus?
Enterovirus appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 98,107th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Enterovirus in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense virus of the genus Enterovirus:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | enterovirus |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does enterovirus come from?
From entero- + virus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).