rotavirus

1. 1.

   the reovirus causing infant enteritis

   Broaderreovirus

Other forms of rotavirus

plural

rotaviruses·

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 rotavirus

What does rotavirus mean?

rotavirus means "the reovirus causing infant enteritis".

How many syllables are in rotavirus?

rotavirus has 4 syllables and divides as ro-ta-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.