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viral

  • adjective
  • vī′rəl

Of or relating to a biological virus.

Example

“viral DNA”

Other meanings

  1. Caused by a virus.

    “viral infection”

  2. Of the nature of an informatic virus; able to spread copies of itself to other computers.

Related words

  • adenoviral
  • alphacoronaviral
  • anti-viral
  • antiviral
  • astroviral
  • betacoronaviral
  • bovine viral diarrhea
  • bovine viral diarrhoea
  • cardioviral
  • coronaviral
  • cryptoviral
  • endogenous viral element

Example sentences

  • “I guess it went viral.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “viral” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.