# mirusvirus

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A virus of the phylum Mirusviricota, a widespread group of plankton-infecting viruses which forms a "missing link" between giant viruses and herpesviruses.

## Etymology
From Latin mīrus (“wonderful, surprising, strange”) + virus.

## Source
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