rhinovirus

1. 1.

   any of a group of picornaviruses that are responsible for many upper respiratory infections

   Broaderpicornavirus

Other forms of rhinovirus

plural

rhinoviruses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rhinovirus

What does rhinovirus mean?

rhinovirus means "any of a group of picornaviruses that are responsible for many upper respiratory infections".

How many syllables are in rhinovirus?

rhinovirus has 4 syllables and divides as rhi-no-vi-rus under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.