flavivirus
noun
flavivirus is a noun meaning “Any arbovirus of the genus Flavivirus, many of which are transmitted by ticks or mosquitos” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-V-I-V-I-R-U-S, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flavivirus is flaviviruses.
What does flavivirus mean?
noun
- 1
Any arbovirus of the genus Flavivirus, many of which are transmitted by ticks or mosquitos
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flavivirus
- flaviviruses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flavivirus?
Flavivirus appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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).
Where does flavivirus come from?
From the genus name.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).