Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com

oncornavirus

American

[ong-kawr-nuh-vahy-ruhs, -kawr-nuh-vahy-] / ɒŋˈkɔr nəˌvaɪ rəs, -ˌkɔr nəˈvaɪ- /

Also oncovirus

noun

Pathology.

any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

oncornaviruses

plural

Etymology

Origin of oncornavirus

1965–70; onco- + RNA + virus

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.