virulent

Etymology
From, borrowed from , from (ultimately from ) +.

Sense 4 (“of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis”) is derived from, which was first used in this sense by the French biologist (1920–2013) and his co-authors in a 1953 article.

Adjective

 * 1) Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.
 * 2)  Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious.
 * 3) * c. 1515–1516, published 1568,, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
 * More venemous and much more virulent / Then any poyſoned tode, or any ſerpent.
 * 1)  Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.
 * 2)  Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.
 * 1)  Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.
 * 2)  Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.
 * 1)  Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.
 * 1)  Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: силно отровен
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вирулѐнтно
 * Roman:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вирулѐнтно
 * Roman:


 * Bulgarian: болестотворен
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: virulentní,
 * Esperanto: virulenta
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: გადამდები, სასიკვდილო, სენიანი
 * German:, extrem ansteckend
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: заразен
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вирулѐнтно
 * Roman:


 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вирулѐнтно
 * Roman:

Etymology
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Etymology
. The second sense is probably a.

Adjective

 * 1)  hostile
 * 1)  hostile

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  virulent

Etymology
, from.