See supervirus on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "super",
"3": "virus"
},
"expansion": "super- + virus",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From super- + virus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "superviruses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "supervirus (plural superviruses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with super-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
11,
21
]
],
"ref": "1997, Maggie Ferguson, Fever rising:",
"text": "Dr. Ross's supervirus sounded a lot like the virus they had been dealing with.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
22,
32
]
],
"ref": "2005, Joshua David Bellin, Framing monsters: fantasy film and social alienation:",
"text": "Shortly thereafter, a supervirus destroys nearly all human life on earth, driving the few survivors underground.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
44,
54
]
],
"ref": "2008, Deirdre Day-MacLeod, Viruses and Spam:",
"text": "Even more amazing is the idea that the next supervirus could be created as easily by a high school student as it could by a computer scientist.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A virus that is particularly powerful or resistant to treatment."
],
"id": "en-supervirus-en-noun-TDEjNtAl",
"links": [
[
"virus",
"virus"
],
[
"resistant",
"resistant"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-supervirus.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supervirus.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supervirus.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supervirus.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supervirus.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "supervirus"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "super-",
"3": "virus"
},
"expansion": "super- + virus",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From super- + virus.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "supervirus m (invariable)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "French terms prefixed with super-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "fr",
"name": "Virology",
"orig": "fr:Virology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
29,
39
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
27,
37
]
],
"english": "Researchers have created a supervirus by making mutations to the H5N1 strain and injecting them into ferrets, a species as susceptible as humans to the flu virus.",
"ref": "2011 December 7, Sandrine Cabut, “La création d'un supervirus fait polémique”, in Le Monde:",
"text": "Les chercheurs ont abouti au supervirus en effectuant quelques mutations sur des souches de virus H5N1, puis en les injectant à des furets, une espèce aussi sensible que l'homme aux virus grippaux.",
"translation": "Researchers have created a supervirus by making mutations to the H5N1 strain and injecting them into ferrets, a species as susceptible as humans to the flu virus.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"supervirus"
],
"id": "en-supervirus-fr-noun-0oqXCAgc",
"links": [
[
"virology",
"virology"
],
[
"supervirus",
"supervirus#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(virology) supervirus"
],
"tags": [
"invariable",
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"microbiology",
"natural-sciences",
"virology"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sy.pɛʁ.vi.ʁys/"
}
],
"word": "supervirus"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "super",
"3": "virus"
},
"expansion": "super- + virus",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From super- + virus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "superviruses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "supervirus (plural superviruses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with super-",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
11,
21
]
],
"ref": "1997, Maggie Ferguson, Fever rising:",
"text": "Dr. Ross's supervirus sounded a lot like the virus they had been dealing with.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
22,
32
]
],
"ref": "2005, Joshua David Bellin, Framing monsters: fantasy film and social alienation:",
"text": "Shortly thereafter, a supervirus destroys nearly all human life on earth, driving the few survivors underground.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
44,
54
]
],
"ref": "2008, Deirdre Day-MacLeod, Viruses and Spam:",
"text": "Even more amazing is the idea that the next supervirus could be created as easily by a high school student as it could by a computer scientist.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A virus that is particularly powerful or resistant to treatment."
],
"links": [
[
"virus",
"virus"
],
[
"resistant",
"resistant"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-supervirus.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supervirus.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supervirus.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supervirus.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supervirus.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "supervirus"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "super-",
"3": "virus"
},
"expansion": "super- + virus",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From super- + virus.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "supervirus m (invariable)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French 4-syllable words",
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French indeclinable nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns",
"French terms prefixed with super-",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"French terms with quotations",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"fr:Virology"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
29,
39
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
27,
37
]
],
"english": "Researchers have created a supervirus by making mutations to the H5N1 strain and injecting them into ferrets, a species as susceptible as humans to the flu virus.",
"ref": "2011 December 7, Sandrine Cabut, “La création d'un supervirus fait polémique”, in Le Monde:",
"text": "Les chercheurs ont abouti au supervirus en effectuant quelques mutations sur des souches de virus H5N1, puis en les injectant à des furets, une espèce aussi sensible que l'homme aux virus grippaux.",
"translation": "Researchers have created a supervirus by making mutations to the H5N1 strain and injecting them into ferrets, a species as susceptible as humans to the flu virus.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"supervirus"
],
"links": [
[
"virology",
"virology"
],
[
"supervirus",
"supervirus#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(virology) supervirus"
],
"tags": [
"invariable",
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"microbiology",
"natural-sciences",
"virology"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sy.pɛʁ.vi.ʁys/"
}
],
"word": "supervirus"
}
Download raw JSONL data for supervirus meaning in All languages combined (3.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.