"virivorous" meaning in All languages combined

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          "word": "carnivorous"
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Bettarel et al., “Low consumption of virus-sized particles by heterotrophic nanoflagellates in two lakes of the French Massif Central”, in Aquatic Microbial Ecology, volume 39, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 205–209",
          "text": "It is thus tempting to believe that virivorous organisms, like bacterivorous ones, should be able to optimize their food uptake by exploiting patches of high prey abundances.",
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          "ref": "2011, Bettarel et al., “Ecological traits of planktonic viruses and prokaryotes along a full-salinity gradient”, in FEMS Microbiology Ecology, volume 76, number 2, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 360–372",
          "text": "The salt-forced extinction of potential virivorous nanoflagellates is a possible explanation, but the ability of these viruses to better resist ambient UV radiations is not unrealistic either.",
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          "ref": "2017, Junger et al., “Salinity Drives the Virioplankton Abundance but Not Production in Tropical Coastal Lagoons”, in Microbial Ecology, volume 75, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 52–63",
          "text": "Finally, the higher increase of VA in comparison to HBA in hypersaline systems was probably related to a higher resistance of halophages to environmental virucidal agents and, to a lesser extent, due to a lack of virivorous nanoflagellates or ciliates.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 January 17, Jasna Hodžić, ““Virivores” discovered: Microbes that survive on a virus-only diet”, in Big Think, archived from the original on 2023-01-21",
          "text": "If the researchers could prove that the microbes were growing by eating chlorovirus, they would have compelling evidence that these protists can sustain themselves with a virivorous lifestyle.",
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        "(biology) Involving or sustained by the consumption of viruses."
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